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By the 1660s, the mighty Mughal Empire controlled the Indian subcontinent and impressed the world with its strength and opulence. Yet hardly two decades would pass before fortunes would turn, Mughal kings and governors losing influence to rival warlords and foreign powers. How could leaders of one of the most dominant early modern polities lose their grip over empire? Sudev Sheth proposes a new point of departure, focusing on diverse local and hitherto unexplored evidence about a prominent financier family entrenched in bankrolling Mughal elites and their successors. Analyzing how four generations of the Jhaveri family of Gujarat financed politics, he offers a fresh take on the dissolution of the Mughal empire, the birth of princely successor states, and the nature of economic life in the days leading up to the colonial domination of India.

Lisa Balabanlilar, Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire: Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central Asia (London: I. B. Tauris, 2012). Mogul Empire -- History. India -- Mogul Empire. History

The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate entrepreneurs run their empires with a highly eccentric and highly political management style

The Global Thinkers in this category have many different answers on what one should do with several million dollars: assemble a media empire, build a new Hollywood an ocean away from California, take on repressive regimes, help tech start-ups get on their feet, bring the Internet to every corner of the globe. Together, they show that the benefit of great wealth and status is the ability to define one's mission and reinvent it again and again. The global thinkers include: 1. Jeff Bezos for betting on old media, 2. Wang Jianlin for dreaming of a Chinese Hollywood, 3. Noura Al Kaabi for building an Arabic-language media empire, 4. Saad Mohseni for believing that entertainment can change a country for the better, 5. Mark Zuckerberg for envisioning a stripped-down Internet, 6. Wang Gongquan for defying the unwritten rules of China's business elite, and 7. Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant for throwing open the gates to venture capital. Adapted from the source document.

Prologue : setting the stage, 1504-1707 -- The early years, 1504-1556 -- Princely households -- Friends and allies -- Disobedience and rebellion -- Wars of succession -- The prince shackled, 1680s-1707

Klappentext: "Having monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the new rulers of a region roughly comprising modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern India, and founding what would become the Mughal Empire (1526-1857). The last survivors of the House of Timur, the Mughals drew invaluable political capital from their lineage, which was recognized for its charismatic genealogy and court culture - the features of which are examined here. By identifying Mughal loyalty to Turco-Mongol institutions and traditions, Lisa Balabanlilar here positions the Mughal dynasty at the centre of the early modern Islamic world as the direct successors of a powerful political and religious tradition." -- Provided by publisher.