Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Sir Jadunath Sarkar’s "Fall of the Mughal Empire"

From The Hindu:

The four volumes of Fall of the Mughal Empire are the most impressive work of Indian history that I have read. They should be required reading in all of our schools for students aged 16, by when we are old enough to be able to look at the world around us through our own eyes. A lot of what we see around us in the India of 2018, we will be able to understand on reading this work. It is in that sense a shattering book, and one cannot think of too many that have such influence on the reader and have such ability to transform the way readers think.

Sir Jadunath Sarkar’s magisterial work spans only about seven decades of Indian history, from after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah, till the end of the Maratha power in the first few years of the 19th century. His model in writing this in some ways was a British administrator named William Irvine, who died around 1911, and had written a work called Later Mughals.


read more here @ The Hindu

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