https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4488 2026-04-25T23:57:07Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4497 Title: Os Lusiads – The Portuguese Epic of Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India Authors: Datta, Karubaki 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4496 Title: Famines in Mughal India Authors: Parwez, Muhammad; Khan, Enayatullah Abstract: The present research paper highlights the causes and consequences of the famines in Mughal India and its ecological affects. How far famines are responsible for the migration spread of diseases and huge number of human losses in the famine affected areas. I also try to discuss the measures adopted by the Mughal Emperors to control the famine affected region. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4495 Title: The Text and Subtext of Shah Jahan's Capital City: A Study of the Imperial Iconography of Shahjahanabad Authors: Rashid, Rohma Javed Abstract: Shah Jahan’s interest in architecture is well known. Shahjahanabad, was perhaps the most ambitious of his projects. He orchestrated the urban structures and had his historians and poets create literary images of a city that was a physical manifestation of Shah Jahan’s ideas about the greatness of his empire. The structures of the city were to establish him as the greatest, with their grandeur, of all rulers who sought to rule from here. His city was also to speak to his rivals in distant realms and challenge their authority as leaders of the world. These ideas coalesced together to give Shah Jahan a city that was truly reflective of his ideology of empire. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/4494 Title: Ma’afidars and the Institutions of Learning in Colonial Bengal Authors: Jafri, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Abstract: Bengal became a part of the Sultanate of the Delhi during the 13th century itself. Soon after numerous families of the migrants and administrators came from Khurasan and Central Asia, who made Bengal a part of the larger Islamic East. Along with the institutions of governance and ruling apparatus, they also created the institutions of higher learning and Centers of Sufi activities. On its part, the State liberally supported these individuals/institutions established by them with the land and the cash grants. The Greco-Arabic tradition of learning was well established in the region by the 15th century. The impact of this new tradition on the local culture was so great that Arabic script was adopted for writing Bengali language. The Colonial administration of the East India Company treated this class of revenue grantees in a very hostile manner, especially during the infamous inam Commission (A.D 1828-1846). These proceedings resulted into the destruction of the Muslim institutions of higher learning, and virtually sounded the death knell of the scholastic class of the Muslim ashrafiya. W.W. Hunter has offered the most incriminating data of some of these colonial policies. Such evidence was a huge embarrassment to the then British Colonial officials and even the modern apologists of the Raj. The present study attempts an analysis of the fortunes of Buhar family, Baees Hazari and Shash Hazari Waqfs at Pandua, on the basis on the limited data from the Colonial times. It has been argued that the impact of the British rule in Bengal Presidency was definitely disastrous for the early ruling elite/class, as well as for the Muslim institutions of higher scholarship and the numerous Sufi khanqah. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z