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Ira Mukhoty, Akbar the Great Mughal: The Definitive Biography (New Delhi: Aleph Book Co.), 2020, xl + 476 pp. (with end-notes, Bibliography and Index, in total 624 pp.) with 32 pp. of colour-illustrations between pp. 260 and 261., ₹999 (Pb).

Manimugdha S. Sharma, Allahu Akbar: Understanding the Great Mughal in Today's India (New Delhi: Bloomsburg), 2019, xxvi + 305 pp., ₹599 (Hb).

This is a study of how the holy men of Vrindavan—the Gosā'ins of the Chaitanya sect—accumulated wealth and property, and how this enabled them to further augment it by investing in land, credit and usury. They lent money against mortgage of peasant-held land, which resulted in further land-acquisitions. The study is based on the large amount of private papers preserved by the Gosā'ins since c. 1550, mainly in Persian but also in Braj. This material in the form of photographs and xerox copies was collected by the late Dr Tarapada Mukherjee.

K. Paddayya, Neolithic Ashmounds of the Deccan: Their Place in the Archaeology of Peninsular India (New Delhi: Aryan Books International), 2019, 174 pp., ₹1500 (Hb).

S. Irfan Habib, ed., Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings (New Delhi: Aleph Book Company), 2017, 285 pp., ₹499 (Hb). ISBN 97893-528-0837-3. S. Irfan Habib, ed., Inquilab: Bhagat Singh on Religion and Revolution (New Delhi: SAGE Publications), 2018, 192 pp., ₹295 (Pb). ISBN 978-93-86021-05-2.

Azfar Moin, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (Delhi: Primus Books in arrangement with Columbia University Press), 2018, XI + 343 pp., ₹1,250 (Hb).

T.C.A. Raghavan, The People Next Door: The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan (Noida: Harper Collins Publishers), 2017, 348 pp., ₹699.

J.V. Naik, The Collected Works of J.V. Naik: Reform and Renaissance in Nineteenth Century Maharashtra, edited with an Introduction by Murali Ranganathan (Mumbai: Asiatic Society of Mumbai), 2016, 380 pp., ₹750 (Hb).

Manan Ahmad Asif, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnåma and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), 2016, 250 pp., price not stated.

Ayesha Jalal, The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), 2014, ii + 435 pp., (hb) $35 (USA); ₹995 (India).

The collection made up of sixteenth-, seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century documents, of both private and public nature, preserved by the Gosāins of the Chaitanya sect at Vrindavan, uniquely enables us to reconstruct some aspects of everyday life in Mughal-period Braj Bhøm. The paper attempts a narrative of the conduct of the local administration in Mathura and Vrindavan, mainly during the reign of Aurangzeb (1659–1707), in matters relating to civic life in the area.

Sushil Chaudhury, Companies, Commerce and Merchants: Bengal in the Pre-colonial Era (New Delhi: Monohar), 2015, pp. 433, ₹1495 (Hardback).

Ziyā Baranī, Tārīkh-i Fīrozshāhī (earlier version), facsimile edition of MS in Raza Library, 1913, Rampur, with an introduction by Professor S.M. Azizuddīn Husain (Rampur: Raza Library), text, pp. 344 + introduction, pp. 104.

Dietmar Rothermund, Violent Traders: Europeans in Asia in the Age of Mercantilism (New Delhi: Manohar), 2014, pp. 197, Price: ₹ 695.