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Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India by Findly, Ellison Banks

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Nur Jahan, empress of Mughal India by Findly, Ellison Banks

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Culture of encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court / by Truschke, Audrey

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Culture of encounters : Sanskrit at the Mughal Court / by Truschke, Audrey

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Paradise as a garden : in Persia and Mughal India / by Moynihan, Elizabeth B.

Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary / by Kinra, Rajeev

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.…”
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Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary / by Kinra, Rajeev

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.…”
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Three ways to be alien travails & encounters in the early modern world / by Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : three (and more) ways to be alien -- A Muslim prince in counter-reformation Goa -- The perils of realpolitik -- Unmasking the Mughals -- By way of conclusion.…”
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Three ways to be alien travails & encounters in the early modern world / by Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : three (and more) ways to be alien -- A Muslim prince in counter-reformation Goa -- The perils of realpolitik -- Unmasking the Mughals -- By way of conclusion.…”
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The limits of Orientalism seventeenth-century representations of India / by Sapra, Rahul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Undermining the categories "East" and "West" -- The representations of the Mughals in the English travel narratives -- The representations of the Hindus and the Parsis -- Representations of Aurengzeb/Muslims in the latter half of the century -- Conclusion.…”
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The limits of Orientalism seventeenth-century representations of India / by Sapra, Rahul

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Undermining the categories "East" and "West" -- The representations of the Mughals in the English travel narratives -- The representations of the Hindus and the Parsis -- Representations of Aurengzeb/Muslims in the latter half of the century -- Conclusion.…”
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Colour of paradise the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / by Lane, Kris E., 1967-

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Colour of paradise the emerald in the age of gunpowder empires / by Lane, Kris E., 1967-

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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Islam and the English enlightenment, 1670-1840 / by Garcia, Humberto, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: rethinking Islam in the eighteenth century -- "A true protestant Mahometan": Henry Stubbe, Ottoman Hungary, and the siege of Vienna -- Letters from a female deist: Lady Mary Wortley, muslim women, and freethinking feminism -- In defense of the ancient Mughal constitution: Edmund Burke, India and the Warren Hastings trial -- Hermetic Egypt, Ali Bonaparte, and the colonial politics of Walter Savage Landor's Gebir -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": plotting Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and Robert Southey's unitarian epic -- A last woman's eschatology: the avenging Turks in Mary Shelley's The last man -- Epilogue: postcolonial reflections.…”
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Edward Elgar and his world

Table of Contents: “…Thomson -- Elgar and the salons : the significance of a private musical world / Sophie Fuller -- Elgar and the British raj : can the Mughals march? / Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth centruy / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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Edward Elgar and his world

Table of Contents: “…Thomson -- Elgar and the salons : the significance of a private musical world / Sophie Fuller -- Elgar and the British raj : can the Mughals march? / Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth centruy / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa /

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