HIST 4104 - Mughal India

Credit Hours 3
Description: This course addresses the political economic and cultural changes in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. It covers the Mughal Empire–one of the largest empires in the world of its time–and other Indian kingdoms contemporaneous with it such as those in the Deccan and South India. Students will become acquainted with a world where occupations and identities were in constant flux, where kings became impoverished renunciates, bandits became kings, peasants became warriors, warriors became scholarly writers, and harem women became traders and power brokers.