SURINDER SINGH is the author of books titled The Making of Medieval Panjab: Politics, Society and Culture c.1000-c.1500 and Medieval Panjab in Transition: Authority, Resistance and Spirituality c.1500-c.1700. He has co-edited books such as Sufism in Punjab and Popular Literature and Pre-Modern Societies in South Asia.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Appointment of Government Officers in
Medieval States: The Concerns of Nizam ul-Mulk Tusi and Ziauddin Barani 2.
Dynastic Change in Northern India: Divergent Approaches to the Exercise of
Sovereign Power 3. Rulers, Zamindars and Sufis: Probing a Triangular Model
of State Formation 4. Administrative Consolidation in the Delhi Sultanate:
Evidence from a Collection of Letters 5. Scientific Temperament and
Technical Innovations in North India: From the Eleventh to the Fifteenth
Century 6. Revolt of Dulla Bhatti against the Mughal State: A Study of Oral
Tradition and Modern Cultural Forms 7. Travelling Across Northwestern
India: The State of Rivers, Bridges and Boats during the Mughal Age 8.
Political Culture in the Mughal Empire: An Idealistic Vision and the Ground
Reality 9. A Central Asian Visitor at the Mughal Court: Meetings of Mutribi
Samarqandi with Emperor Jahangir 10. Pictures of Amazement in Medieval
India: Looking into the Works of Mushtaqi, Jahangir and Bhandari 11.
Historical Dimensions of Islam in South Asia: Modern Writings on Polity,
Religion and Culture 12. Cultural Ethos of Medieval Panjab: The Pathways of
Resistance to the Structures of Dominance 13. Caste, Creed and Custom:
North Indian Society Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century 14 .
Celebration of Religious Diversity in Agra: Reading the Observations of
Nazir Akbarabadi Index
