Jaffar S.M. The Mughal Empire from Bābar to Aurangzeb

S. Muhammad Sadiq Khan, 1936. — xxiv + 441 p., maps 4.The period of the Mughal rule in India is the most interesting period in the history of the country and furnishes a highly fascinating subject of study.The author, as an enlightened Muslim, is naturally in sympathy with the Great Mughal Rulers who professed the faith of Islam and succeeded in establishing a vast and wonderful empire in a country to which the founder of the dynasty originally came as an invader from his Central Asian home. Mr. Jaffar does not conceal his admiration for the Mughals, yet he is not forgetful of his duty as an historian and comes out with frank criticisms of the policies and administrations of the Emperors whose reigns are described by him.While dealing with the Muslim point of view and trying to explain the actions of Mughal Emperors, which have been adversely criticised by some modern historians, Mr. Jaffar does not ignore the general Indian point of view, and he brings out the contribution made by Mughal Rulers of India to Indian culture and to the fusion of Hindu and Muslim cultures into one common heritage.