Medieval India 1: Researches in the history of India 1200-1750 / Irfan Habib

1. Formation of the Sultanate ruling class of the thirteenth century;
2. Social mobility in the Delhi Sultanate;
3. Irrigating Haryana: The pre-modern history of the Western Yamuna canal;
4, The Mughal assignment system during Akbar's early years, 1556-1575;
5. Political structures of the Islamic orient in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries;
6. Hindu shrines and practices as described by a central Asian traveller in the first half of the seventeenth century;
7. An Aristocratic surgeon of Mughal India: Muquarrab Khan;
8. Agriculture and revenue rates in the Mathura;
9. The ruler and the nobility in Marwar during the reign of Jaswant Singh;

A Collection of seminal essays, this book focuses on several significant aspects of medieval India from 1200-1750. From the formation of the ruling class, social and demographic mobility, and irrigation in the Delhi Sultanate to the characteristic features of the Mughal state - the Jagirdari system, nobility, revenue administration, and agrarian reforms - all the aspects have been explored in great detail. The volume also provides rare insights into medieval society and cultural and religious practices. It carries a translation from and notes on Aurangzeb's farman on revenue administration. This book will be indispensible for scholars, teachers, and students of medieval history as well as general readers.