Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prehistoric and Ancient Antecedents
- 2 The Expansion of Agriculture and Settled Society
- 3 Geography and the World-Historical Context
- 4 Medieval India and the Rise of Islam
- 5 From the Mongols to the Great Mughals
- 6 The Empire of the Great Mughals and Its Indian Foundations
- 7 The Indian Ocean in the Age of the Estado da India and the East India Companies
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index
5 - From the Mongols to the Great Mughals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Prehistoric and Ancient Antecedents
- 2 The Expansion of Agriculture and Settled Society
- 3 Geography and the World-Historical Context
- 4 Medieval India and the Rise of Islam
- 5 From the Mongols to the Great Mughals
- 6 The Empire of the Great Mughals and Its Indian Foundations
- 7 The Indian Ocean in the Age of the Estado da India and the East India Companies
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes and analyzes the medieval Mongol origins of the dynasty of the Great Mughals that ruled much of the subcontinent in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. It was the successful development of the institution of the corporate Turko-Mongol clan and the Mongol imperial heritage that went with it that allowed the Great Mughals to overcome the normal limitations of nomad tribes in a way their Afghan opponents and medieval predecessors could not.
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- The Making of the Indo-Islamic Worldc.700–1800 CE, pp. 124 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020