REQUIRED WORK:
*Ikram, Chapter 14: The
Age of Splendor, pp. 175-88
*Ikram, Chapter 16:
Mughal
Administration, pp. 209-22
*Ikram, Chapter 17:
Economic
and Social Developments under the Mughals, pp. 223-37
*Ikram, Chapter 18:
The
Mughals and the Arts, pp. 238-53
Online through CU as
a "Virtual
Reading Room Text." Another source: the
public version.
*Eaton,"Mughal Culture
and its Diffusion" Chapter 7 (pp. 159-193) of Richard M. Eaton, The
Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1993. BUTLER RESERVE. Also: online
at UC Press. Also: online
through NetLibrary. Within their system, here is the exact
location.
*John F. Richards, "Early
Modern India and World History":
online
at the Univ. of Texas; and slightly edited, online
at CU.
*"A Description of
Malwa" and other events of the year 1616/7, pp. 206-216, from The
Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India, translated, edited,
and annotated by Wheeler M. Thackston. New York: Oxford University Press
in association with the Freer and Sackler Galleries, 1999. BUTLER RESERVE.
Also: this excerpt for
class is on the CU website.
POSSIBLE
PAPER TOPIC FOUR:
In the Jahangirnama as a whole,
the events Jahangir considers worth recording seem to fall into certain
categories. Choose one such category (animal experiments, holy men, hunting
expeditions, stories of predictions, etc., etc.) and focus your paper on
the whole set of such scenes in the entire memoir. When you put them all
together, what conclusions are you able to draw about their author and
his view of the world?
