1st Edition
The Mughals and the North-East Encounter and Assimilation in Medieval India
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
SAJAL NAG
1. External Sources for the History of North-East in Mughal Times
IRFAN HABIB
2. Extent and Economic Aspects of Forests in Mughal India
SHIREEN MOOSVI
3. Assam in the Mughal Times: A Dutch View in 1660s
ISHRAT ALAM
4. Beyond the Chronicles: The Agrarian Legacy in Cooch Behar and Assam (An Analysis of Mughal
Archival Records, AD 1614-1754)
SAIYID ZAHEER HUSAIN JAFRI
5. Mughal Influence on Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)
ASHFAQUE HOSSAIN& ANANDA BIKASH CHAKMA
6. Naval Warfare in Mughal North-East India
KAUSHIK ROY
7. Kamrupa State and the Mughal Empire
TAHIR H. ANSARI
8. Ahom Princess of Mughal Court
BIMAL PHUKAN
9. Ahom-Mughal Matrimonial Alliance
MEMCHATON SINGHA
10. Frontier Tribes and the Mughals in the Eighteenth Century
TEJIMALA GURUNG
11. The Mughals and the Khasi and Jaintia States of North-Eastern India: Interactions and Impacts
LASOBORKI PYRNGAP
12. Mughals and the Koch-Ahom Relations During the Sixteenth Century
I.S.MUMTAZA
13. Mughal and Ahom States: Impact, Adaptation and Consequences
M. PARWEZ
14. Encounters in the East: Mughal-Tripura Relations
ANINDITA GHOSHAL
15. Tribes of North-East India as Depicted in Persian Tazkeras
MAZHAR ASIF
16. Sufi Saints and their Impact in Barak Valley
SHERIN SULTANA TALUKDAR
17. Manipur and the Mughals: King Khagemba and the Mughal Interface (AD 1597-1652)
NG. MEETA DEVI
18. Agrarian Conquest in Mughal Goalpara
SATARUPA SAHA
19. The Mughals and the Advent of Portugese in North-East
DEEPALI BHATTACHARJEE
20. Mughal Wars in North-East India: Analysis of the Ahom Victory over the Mughals
GEETASHRI SINGH
21. The Curious Community of Asomiya Sikhs: The Mughal Connection?
SAJAL NAG
22. Arrival of Various Sufi Saints and their Silsilah (Order) in Different Parts of Assam and Establishment of Khankahs
ASSADUZZAMAN
23. Advent of Islam in Surma-Barak Valley
MAHBUBUR RAHMAN LASKAR
Contributors
Biography
Sajal Nag is Senior Professor and Head, Department of History and Dean, School of Social Sciences, Assam University, Silchar. He is the author of The Beleaguered Nation: Making and Unmaking of the Assamese Nationality (Manohar: 2016); and Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Sub Nationalism in North East-India (Manohar: 2002); among others.
