A Brief History of the Great Moguls: India's Most Flamboyant Rulers
A Brief History of the Great Moguls: India's Most Flamboyant Rulers (Brief History, The) Bamber Gascoigne,
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
ISBN: 0786710403
DDC: 954
Edition: Paperback; 2002-08-30
Summary:
Bamber Gascoigne’s classic book revisits perhaps the most fascinating
period of Indian history, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
when the vast country was ruled by its most extraordinarily talented
dynasty of emperors. Because of their virtually limitless power and
incomparable wealth, these remarkable rulers came to be known to
European travelers as “the Great Moguls.” In vital, colorful detail
gleaned from meticulous research Gascoigne here presents in all their
splendor the palaces of these magnificent moguls at the same time
that he examines their passions, their arts, their science and
religion, and above all, their sophisticated system of
administration, which stabilized the greater part of India to such a
successful degree that it was later adopted by the British. Acclaimed
by travelers and scholars alike, and beautifully illustrated in color
with 16 pages of photographs, Gascoigne’s A Brief History of the
Great Moguls offers to anyone with an interest in India’s glorious
past an engaging survey of a splendid culture and its singular
achievements. “Entertainingly written history ... ravishingly
beautiful photographs.”—The Times (London) “Extremely
readable.”—Times Literary Supplement
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