The State in Medieval Kashmir

ISBN-13: 9781032292144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 202 str.

Rattan Lal Hangloo

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive account of political processes and their varied foundations in medieval Kashmir. It examines some of the principal ways through which the region’s social and religious life interacted with the then, current political formations to produce peculiar structures of power and domination.

Spis treści

Preface to the Revised Edition  Preface to the First Edition  Introduction  1. Historical Roots of State Formation in Pre-Sultanate Kashmir  2. Conversions to Islam and the Consolidation of a Social Base of Power in the Sultanate  3. The Sayyids, Sultans and the State: A Search for Legitimacy, 1339-1470  4. The Incorporation of the Sultanate into
the Mughal State  5. Conclusion 

O autorze

Rattan Lal Hangloo is Honorary Chancellor, Noble International University, Toronto. Hangloo was a Professor of History at the Hyderabad Central University and Vice Chancellor of Kalyani University, West Bengal, and Vice Chancellor of University of Allahabad. He has authored several books, primarily on the medieval Indian history.