Mughals and Franks Explorations in Connected History

Like its companion From Tagus to the Ganges, this book deploys the concept of 'connected histories' to shed important light on aspects of the history of early modern Eurasia. It reflects on two and a half centuries of Mughal-European relations, beginning with the early years of the Mughals in India, and ending with the eighteenth century. The volume demonstrates that the interface and balance of power between the Mughals and the Europeans are an integral part of a wider system of international political alliances. Sanjay Subrahmanyam introduces the idea of 'contained conflict', which is used as a paradigm to study political and commercial relations in the period. He also questions the lines of political and cultural division that traditional history writing has accepted. This will interest students and scholars of Indian and South Asian history, medieval history, early modern India, as well as politics.

1 - Introduction: Mughals and Franks in an Age of Contained Conflict
2 - The Trading World of the Western Indian Ocean, 1546-65
3 - Mughal Gujarat and the Iberian World in the Transition of 1580-1
4 - The Portuguese, the Mughals, and Deccan Politics, c. 1600
5 - The Legend of Sultan Bulaqi and the Estado da India, 1628-40
6 - The Company and the Mughals between Sir Thomas Roe and Sir William Norris
7 - Dreaming an Indo-Persian Empire in South Asia, 1740-1800
8 - Afterword

Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor, Department of History, Centre for India and South Asia, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He is also former Professor of Indian History and Culture, University of Oxford and former professor of economic history, Delhi School of Economics. Also, taught at Paris as Directeur d'études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.