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On the roles of the chief consorts (begums) of Oudh, 1792-1857.

Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and a

Offers an annotated source for the study of the public and private lives of South Asian Muslim women.

'What do you suggest, then? How do we mitigate this tragedy? Three years of drought . . . three years of starvation!' She realized it was his way of getting bac

Few polities were more instrumental to the rise of the East India Company and the advent of British colonial rule in South Asia than the Mughal successor state