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Book recommendation for Mughal history

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List of books on Mughals

  1. Fathpur Sikri by S Ali Nadeem Rezavi
  2. The Reign of Muhammad Shah 11719-48) by Z U Malik
  3. Edicts from the Mughal Harem by SAI Tirmizi
  4. The loss of Hindustan by Manan Ahmad
  5. Women in Mughal India by Rekha Mishra
  6. The Shah Jahan nama of Inayat Khan tr by WE Begley & ZA Desai
  7. Bahadur Shah Zafar by S Mahdi Husain
  8. The Religious policy of the Mughals by Sri Ram Sharma
  9. Delhi and Awadh in 1857 Ed by SZH Jafri
  10. The Monuments of India by Zafar Hasan
    ( from the books I have and use)

Suggested by Sajjad Rizvi

  1. The Empires of the Near East and India
    Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities
    Edited by Hani Khafipour
  2. Mughals and the Sufis by Muzaffar Alam
  3. Sanjay Subrahmanyam
    Mughals and Franks: Explorations in Connected History
  4. Sanjay Subrahmanyam:
    From Tagus to the Ganges: Exploration in Connected History
  5. Muzaffar Alam:
    Language of Political Islam in India
  6. Shankar Nair
    Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia
  7. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam :
    Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture
  8. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subramanyam :
    The Mughal State 1526-1750: Themes in Indian History: Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History

Suggested by Ali Nadeem Rezavi

  1. M. Athar Ali – The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb.
    The Apparatus of Empire: Awards of Ranks, Offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility
  2. Stephen Dale, Babur
    20 Aniruddha Ray, The Sultanate of Delhi (1206–1526): Polity, Economy, Society and Culture
  3. John F Richards, The Mughal Empire
  4. Irfan Habib, Medieval India
  5. Catherine Ashar & Cynthia Talbot, India Before Europe
  6. S Athar Abbās Rizvi, Wonder That Was India, vol II
  7. Nurul Hasan (Ed S Chandra), Religion, State and Society in Medieval India
  8. Stephen Blake Shahjahanabad

More from my shelf:

  1. Hakim Sameer Hamdani : The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir
  2. People’s History of India
  3. Dastan e Ghadar translated by Rana Safvi
  4. Eaton and Wagoner: power, Memory, Architecture
  5. Iqtidar Alam Khan: historical dictionary of medieval India
  6. Taj Mahal : Multiple Narratives by Amita Baig and Rahul Mahrotra
  7. Asar us Sanadid translated by Rana Safvi
  8. S.P Verma : Interpreting Mughal paintings
  9. Richard Eaton: India’s Islamic Traditions
  10. Iqtidar Alam Khan: India’s polity in the age of Akbar
  11. SAI Tirmizi : India’s historical vistas
  12. Mutiny on the margins -all volumes
  13. Abhishek Kaicker: The King and The People
  14. Satish Chandra :Medieval India-2 volumes
  15. Sunil Khilnani : incarnations
  16. Annemarie Schimmel : Empire of the great mughals

17. Shashank Shekhar Sinha:
Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri: Monuments, Cities and Connected Histories

18. The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback
by Yashaswini Chandra

Plus list given by Mad Mughal Memes

1) John F. Richards, “The Mughal Empire”
2) Dirk Collier, “The Great Mughals and their India”
3) Harbans Mukhia, “The Mughals of India”
4) Abraham Eraly, “The Mughal Throne: the saga of India’s great emperors”
5) M. Athar Ali, “Mughal India: studies in polity, ideas, society and culture”
6) Shireen Moosvi, “People, Taxation and Trade in Mughal India”
7) Irfan Habib, “The Agrarian System of Mughal India”
Abraham Eraly, “The Mughal World”
9) Ruby Lal, “Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World”
10) Ruby Lal, “Empress: the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan”
11) Ira Mukhoty, “Daughters of the Sun”
12) Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, “The Baburnama” (translated by Annette Susannah Beveridge)
13) Gulbadan Begum, “The Humayun Nama” (translated by Annette Susannah Beveridge)
14) Abul Fazl, “The Complete Akbarnama” (translated by Henry Beveridge)
15) Ira Mukhoty, “Akbar: The Great Mughal”
16) Manimugdha Sharma, “Allahu Akbar: understanding the great Mughal in today’s India”
17) Irfan Habib (edited), “Akbar and his India”
18) Abd al Qadir Badayuni, “Muntakhab-ul-Tawarikh”
19) Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir, “Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri” (translated by Alexander Rogers, edited by Henry Beveridge)
20) Parvati Sharma, “Jahangir: an intimate portrait of a great Mughal”
21) Fergus Nicoll, “Shah Jahan: the rise and fall of the Mughal emperor”
22) Supriya Gandhi, “The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India”
23) Avik Chanda, “Dara Shukoh: the man who would be king”
24) Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: the life and legacy of India’s most controversial king”
25) Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: the man and the myth”
26) Catherine B. Asher, “Architecture of Mughal India”
27) Amar Farooqui, “Zafar and the Raj: Anglo-Mughal Delhi, c 1800-1850”
28) Aslam Parvez, “The Life and Poetry of Bahadur Shah Zafar”
29) William Dalrymple, “The Last Mughal”
30) Swapna Liddle, “Chandni Chowk: the Mughal city of Old Delhi
31) Debasish Das, “Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals”
32) William Dalrymple, “City of Djinns: a year in Delhi”
33) Munis D. Faruqui, “The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719”
34) GS Cheema, “The Forgotten Mughals: a history of the later emperors of the house of Babur”
35) Meena Bhargava (edited), “The Decline of the Mughal Empire”
36) Mitresh Singh, “Mughal Numismatics: Revisiting Rarities, New Perspectives and Fresh Approach”
37) Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court”
38) Richard M. Eaton, “India in the Persianate Age”
39) Subhadra Sen Gupta, “Mahal: power and pageantry in the Mughal Harem”
40) Sudeep Chakravarti, “Plassey: the battle that changed the course of history”
41) Mirza Nathan, “The Complete Baharistan-i-Ghaybi”
42) Mutamad Khan, “Iqbalnama-i-Jahangiri”
43) Mirza Muhammad Haidar, “Tarikh-i-Rashidi”
44) Milo Cleveland Beach, “Mughal and Rajput Painting”
45) HLO Garrett, “The Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar”
46) Richard M. Eaton, “Temple Desecration and Muslim States in Medieval India”
47) Rana Safvi, “City of My Heart”
48) Rana Safvi, “Shahjahanabad: the living city of Old Delhi”
49) William Dalrymple, Yuthika Sharma (edited), “Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857”
50) Manu S. Pillai, “Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji”
51) Kate Brittlebank, “Tiger: The Life of Tipu Sultan”
52) William Dalrymple, “The Anarchy”
53) Kalikinkar Datta, “Shah Alam II and the East India Company”
54) Rudrangshu Mukherjee, “A Begum & A Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857”
55) Ravi Bhatt, “The Life and Times of the Nawabs of Lucknow”
56) Raziuddin Aquil, Tilottama Mukherjee (edited), “An Earthly Paradise: Trade Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal”
57) Sudipta Mitra, “Pearl By The River: Nawab Wajid Ali Shah’s Kingdom In Exile”
58) William Dalrymple, “White Mughals”
59) KA Nizami, “Delhi in Historical Perspectives”
60) Meena Bhargava, “Understanding Mughal India: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries”
Politics of Islam in Medieval India”
61) TCA Raghavan, “Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India”

Added by Souvik Mukherjee

  1. Andrew De La Garza, The Mughal Empire At War: Babur, Akbar and the Indian Military Revolution
  2. Kaushik Roy, Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750
  3. Ebba Koch, Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology, Collected Essays
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