Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History

Munis D. Faruqui is an historian and Associate Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He focuses on the Muslim experience in South Asia, especially during the Mughal period. His books include Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and the edited volume Religious Interactions in Mughal India (co-edited with Vasudha Dalmia). His various journal articles have interrogated the creation of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605), the founding decades (c.1720–40) of the princely state of Hyderabad, and the relationship between religion and politics in the life and work of the Mughal prince, Dara Shukoh (1615–59). He is currently working on a book re-evaluating the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r.1658–1707).

• List of contributors; Foreword Gordon Johnson; Introduction David Gilmartin; 1. At empire's end: the Nizam, Hyderabad and eighteenth-century India Munis D. Faruqui; 2. The ignored elites: Turks, Mongols and a Persian secretarial class in the early Delhi sultanate Sunil Kumar; 3. 'Silk Road, Cotton Road or … Indo-Chinese trade in pre-European times' Stephen F. Dale; 4. The political economy of opium smuggling in early-nineteenth-century India: leakage or resistance? Claude Markovits; 5. Opium and the company: maritime trade and imperial finances on Java, 1684–1796 George Bryan Souza; 6. The Mughals, the Sufi Shaikhs and the formation of the Akbari Dispensation Muzaffar Alam; 7. Notes on political thought in medieval and early modern South India Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam; 8. Becoming Turk the Rajput way: conversion and identity in an Indian warrior narrative Cynthia Talbot; 9. Nature and nurture on imperial China's frontiers Peter C. Perdue; 10. The frontiers of memory: what the Marathas remembered of Vijayanagara Sumit Guha; 11. 'Kiss my foot,' said the King: firearms, diplomacy, and the battle for Raichur, 1520 Richard M. Eaton; 12. Frontiers of family life: early modern Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds Patrick Manning; 13. Chinese revenue farms and borders in Southeast Asia Carl A. Trocki; Publications John Folsom Richards; Index.