Kashmir Under the Sultans

Mohibbul Hasan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781003830818
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia de la India y el sur de Asia

Kashmir Under Sultans introduces the reader to a subject that begins with the foundation of the Sultanate and ends with the conquest of Kashmir by Akbar. During the Sultanate period, Kashmir had achieved a high standard of culture, but with the disappearance of her independence, her culture gradually declined. Poets, painters, and scholars had to leave the Valley and seek their livelihood elsewhere owing to the absence of local patronage. They then entered the service of the Mughal emperors and were added to the court, thereby lessening the cultural impoverishment of Kashmir.

The book encloses political, social, economic and cultural activities that had a lasting influence on the Kashmir Valley in that period. It is of considerable value to social historians as Professor Mohibbul Hasan offers insights into political and cultural currents and crosscurrents in Kashmir.

This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Abbreviations Used in Citing References to Sources
• Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• 1. Sources
• 2. The Geography of Kashmīr
• 3. The Foundation of the Sultanate
• 4. Sulṭān Shamsu'd-Dīn and His Successors
• 5. Zainu’l-‘Ābidīn the Great (1420-70)
• 6. Dynastic Troubles and Rebellions
• 7. Mīrzā Ḥaidar Dughlat and his Conquest of Kashmīr
• 8. End of the Shāh Mīr Dynasty and the Chak Ascendancy
• 9. Yūsuf Shāh and Akbar
• 10. Fall of the Sultanate
• 11. The Administrative System
• 12. Social and Economic Conditions
• 13. Cultural Activities
• 14. Conclusion
• Appendix A: The Nūrbakhshīya Sect of Kashmīr
• Appendix B: Currency, Coinage, Weights and Measures
• Appendix C: The Chronology and Genealogy of the Sulṭāns of Kashmīr
• Appendix D: Bibliography
• Index