T I M E L I N E

== Very helpful timeline, with maps, by the *Metropolitan Museum*

M A P S

== Links to some maps from the Mughal period: *Columbia Univ.*

I M A G E S

== "A walk beside the Yamuna," about Mughal monuments, including the Taj Mahal: *Univ. of Illinois*

== Many links, compiled here at Columbia, to art and architecture from *Akbar's time*; from the prime of the *Mughal empire*; and from the time of *Mughal decline*

== Some sumptuous Mughal coins: *RBI*

T E X T S

== John F. Richards, "Early Modern India and World History": *Univ. of Texas*

== A Turkish traveler at Humayun's court: Sidi Ali Reis, Mirat ul-Memalak: *Columbia Univ.*

== Excerpts from the Humayun-nama by Gulbadan Begam: *Columbia Univ.*

== The British perspective on the Mughal Empire: *the Imperial Gazetteer*

== "Akbar," a special issue ofSocial Scientist (1992): *DSAL*

== M. Athar Ali, "The Evolution of the Perception of India: Akbar and Abu'l Fazl." Social Scientist (1996): *DSAL*

== Gregory Minissale, "The Synthesis of European and Mughal Art, in the Emperor Akbar's Khamsa of Nizami," beautifully illustrated: *Asianart.com*

== Prof. Vinay Lal, "Aurangzeb, Akbar, and the Communalization of History": *Manas*

== "Aurangzeb's Fatwa on Jizya," a translation of the edict: *Manas*

== "Jurisprudence of the Moguls: The Pandects of Aurungzebe" (1850): *Cornell Univ. library*

== Linda T. Darling, "'Do Justice, Do Justice, For That is Paradise': Middle Eastern Advice for Indian Muslim Rulers" (2002), in PDF format: *CSSAAE*

== Cole, J. R. I., Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 (1988): *Univ. of California Press*

== Keene, Henry George, Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan (London: Oxford University Press, 1887): a free public book on *NetLibrary*; also downloadable through *Project Gutenberg*

== Links to many other resources on Islam in South Asia: *Columbia Univ.*
 

==*special access*: Gommans, J.