Awadh From Mughal to Colonial Rule : Studies in the Anatomy of a Transformation

ABOUT THE BOOK:- This volume contains wide-ranging surveys of various aspects of the history of Awadh from its position as a province of the Mughal Empire to a successor state, a semi-colony under the Nawabi regime, the British annexation and the resistance in 1857. The study explores the manner of Mughal administration, the emergence of the class of t'alluqdars, the Company's constant pressure on the Nawabi regime, the cultural and agrarian milieu of a religious establishment, the law of succession and inheritance at a sufi-khanqah, the biography of a the famous scholarly rebel of 1857, Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah, the indigenous discourse in the rebel's world, co-existence and conflicts in pre-1857 Awadh and finally, the study closes with a discussion on education and a sufi establishment of northern India with an analysis of impact of the colonial interventions. The work brings home to the reader not only the different facets of the historical personality of Awadh, but also the different types of source material available for such a study. The book forms an important complement (and corrective) to much of current historical writing of Awadh. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri (b. 1957), Professor of Medieval Indian History, Department of History, University of Delhi. Authored An Anatomy of a Transformation: Awadh from Mughal to Colonial Rule (1998) and co-edited, The Islamic Path; Sufism, Politics and Society in India (Delhi, 2006) and The Great Uprising of 1857; Studies, Commentaries and Documents (Delhi, 2009). He has also compiled, for Indian History Congress, Recording the Progress of Indian History; Symposia Papers of the Indian History Congress 1992-2010 (2012) and History, Ideas and Society: S.C. Mishra Memorial Lectures in History (2014). Also compiled Masnad-e Faqr-o Irshad: Tareekh Khanwada-e Karimia Naeemia Salon (2003), containing17th- 19th century source material ,archival & judicial records of this well-known Sufi establishment of Awadh, and Ahd- e Wusta ka Hindustan: Tassawuf, Adab Aur Muslim Thaqafat (with Saiyid Hasan Muzzamil Jafri, 2008), (a selection of path breaking Urdu essays by late Professor Syed Naqi Husain Jafri). CONTENTS:- List of Illustrations 11 Foreword 13 Preface to this Edition 15 Preface 21 Previous Publication Details 23 Introduction 25 1. The Geographical Setting 33 MUGHAL AWADH 2. Administration of the Jagirs in Awadh during the seventeenth Century 51 3. Madad-i Ma‘àsh : Farmans of Aurangzeb from Awadh 59 4. Tension and Conflict in the Agrarian Society of Awadh: A Study of the Revenue Grantees 75 UNDER NAWAB-WAZIRS 5. Zamindars in Awadh: Origin, Fiscal Rights and other Perquisites 87 6. Armed Zamindar: The Power Play in Awadh (1595-1858) 103 7. Origin and Growth of Ta’alluqadàri Tenures in Awadh 115 8. Landed Properties of a Sufi Establishment— A Study of Documents from Salon in Awadh 125 9. A Sufi Institution of Awadh 137 10. Inheritance, Succession and the Customary Law in a Sufi Establishment of Awadh 165 CHANGES UNDER BRITISH RULE 11. British Intervention and Agrarian Instability in the Kingdom of Awadh (1801-56) 175 12. Bengal Army Sepoys and Agrarian Instability in the Kingdom of Awadh: 1801-56 AD 185 13. The Land-Controlling Classes in Awadh—A Study of Changes in their Composition, 1600-1900 189 RESISTANCE 14. The Profile of a Saintly Rebel—Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah. 211 15. Voices of the Vanquished: Indigenous Discourse in ‘the Rebels World’ of 1857. 225 CULTURE & EDUCATION 16. Co-existence and Conflicts in Pre-1857 Awadh. 245 17. Madrasa and Khànqàh, or Madrasa in Khànaqàh? Education and sufi Establishments in Northern India. 277 Bibliography .307 Index. 329 The Title 'Awadh From Mughal to Colonial Rule : Studies in the Anatomy of a Transformation written/authored/edited by Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri', published in the year 2016. The ISBN 9788121213295 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 352 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-