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020			_a9781009506526
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi. _c: 123256 _d: 21/10/2026
082			_a332.10 SHE
100			_aSheth, Sudev.
245			_aBankrolling Empire _b: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India. _c/ Sudev Sheth.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2024.
300			_axxiii, 353p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b521.5
520			_aBy 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.
650			_aBankrolling Empire
650			_aFamily Fortunes
650			_aPolitical Transformation
700			_aSudev Sheth.
942			_cBOOK
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