Climate of Conquest
War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India
Price: 1395.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199495559
Publication date:
05/08/2019
Hardback
368 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 1395.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199495559
Publication date:
05/08/2019
Hardback
368 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Pratyay Nath
In Climate of Conquest, the author offers a new analysis of the Mughal empire from the vantage point of war. He eschews the conventional way of writing about war primarily in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he explores the world of military labour, formation of imperial frontiers, legitimization of conquest, and influence of environment on military campaigns. What emerges is an interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
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Description
What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia.
Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
About the Author
Pratyay Nath teaches history at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.
Pratyay Nath
Table of contents
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Fighting Wars: Campaigns, Environment, Empire
- Environment and the Heterogeneous Conquest of North India
- Moving East, Moving West: War, Environment, and Imperial Expansion
Part II. Producing Wars: Logistics, Frontier, Ideology
- Military Labour, Animals, and the Material Production of War
- Routes, Forts, Environment, and the Making of Imperial Frontiers
- Ideology, Empire, and the Cultural Climate of War
Conclusion
Bibliography
Pratyay Nath
Features
- The nature of the Mughal state is one of the biggest areas of scholarly debate in Indian history. This book makes a direct contribution to this field of knowledge by looking at the Mughal state through the lens of war.
- A well-researched book relevant for different college/university courses on Mughal history
Pratyay Nath
Description
What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia.
Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.
About the Author
Pratyay Nath teaches history at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India.
Read MoreTable of contents
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Fighting Wars: Campaigns, Environment, Empire
- Environment and the Heterogeneous Conquest of North India
- Moving East, Moving West: War, Environment, and Imperial Expansion
Part II. Producing Wars: Logistics, Frontier, Ideology
- Military Labour, Animals, and the Material Production of War
- Routes, Forts, Environment, and the Making of Imperial Frontiers
- Ideology, Empire, and the Cultural Climate of War
Conclusion
Bibliography
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