Author: Shaharyar M. Khan
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: bhopal, state, princely, history, begums
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2000-10-20
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 1860645283
ISBN-13: 9781860645280

Between 1819 and 1926 four Muslim women rulers reigned over Bhopal, the second largest Muslim state of India, despite staunch opposition from powerful neighbors and male claimants. Even the British India Company initially opposed female rule in Bhopal until the Begums quoted Queen Victoria as their model and inspiration. Each Begum--or Queen--impressed her own personality on the role and succeeded in reigning over a mostly Hindu population. Qudisa, the first Begum, was supported by her powerful French-Bourbon Prime Minister in her departure from the traditional. She was succeeded in 1844 by Si

Authors:Marianna Shreve Simpson, Massumeh Farhad,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: manuscript, sixteenth, century, iran, princely, awrang, ibrahim, mirza, haft, sultan
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1997-09-10
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0300068026
ISBN-13: 9780300068023

In 1556 Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mizra commissioned a copy of the Persian classic, the "Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) of Abdul-Rahman Jami". This text explores the production, purpose and meaning of the work, providing historical documentation about its patron and analyzing its contents.

Authors:Arie Johan Vanderjagt, Arie Johan Vanderjagt, Martin
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: intellectual, history, studies, brill, princely, culture, princes
Number of Pages: 357
Published: 2005-01
List price: $142.00
ISBN-10: 9004136908
ISBN-13: 9789004136908

Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, forms of devotional piety, and also the social, political and literary self-representation of rulers – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This second volume on princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650 – the first was published in 2003 as volume 118/1 in this series – contains twelve essays. These are focused on England under Edward IV, Henrys VII and VIII, Elizabeth I, and under James