Sudev Sheth

Bankrolling Empire

Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Sudev Sheth presents the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the rise of its successor states as experienced directly by family entrepreneurs. Using hitherto untapped sources in multiple languages, he reveals how local persons and elites participated in the financial crisis that shook Indian society to its very foundations"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 379
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9781009330268
• ISBN-10: 1009330268
• Artikelnr.: 68465993

Autorenporträt

Sudev Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Prelude: The Mughal Empire, 1526
1750; 2. Courtly mutualism: the emperor's jeweler Shantidas Jhaveri, 1628
1658; 3. Political commensalism: Manekchand Jhaveri and bankrolling bids to the throne, 1658
1707; 4. Interlude: cultivating financial crisis under Aurangzeb, 1660s
1719; 5. Expedient extortion: the governor's golden goose Khushalchand Jhaveri, 1719
1730; 6. Competitive coparcenary: Vakhatchand Jhaveri and brokering politics, 1730
1818; 7. Postlude: Bankrollers of Mughal succession, 1750
1818; Conclusion; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.