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  • 6 - Expanding Political and Economic Spheres, 1550–1650

  • Catherine B. Asher, University of Minnesota, Cynthia Talbot, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    India before Europe
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 187-230

  • Summary

    Chapter six examines developments from 1550 to 1650, with attention paid to aspects of early modernity. We begin with the careers of the Mughal emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan and then to a consideration of trade during their reigns, especially the maritime textile trade that brought Europeans to Gujarat’s ports. Active merchant-traders, both Indian and European, illustrate the diversity of Mughal commercial activity. We then turn to the Bahmani successor states in the Deccan, Bijapur and Golconda, focusing on their artistic production, multicultural nobility, and flourishing trade. Following this is an overview of the post-1565 Vijayanagara kingdom and its successor states. An account of the textile production, European enclaves, and maritime trade along India’s southeastern coast concludes the chapter.

  • 1 - Historical framework

  • George Michell, Mark Zebrowski
  • Book:
    Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    10 June 1999, pp 4-22

  • Summary

    The turbulent events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are explained to some extent by the unique location of the Deccan plateau as a meeting place of forces from both North and South India, the promise of boundless land and wealth inspiring repeated invasion. In the first decades of the fourteenth century, the Deccan was subjugated by the Khaljis and Tughluqs, the first Muslim rulers of Delhi. Resistance to these assaults from Delhi occurred in three waves. The first was the military thrust of the mighty Hindu Vijayanagara kingdom south of the Tungabhadra-Krishna rivers in the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries. The second was the opposition of the Shia Muslim sultans such as the Shahis, throughout most of the seventeenth century. The third was the guerilla tactics of the Hindu Maratha warriors in the second half of the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth centuries.