INDIA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The classic modern treatment of the decline of Mughal dominance was Jadunath Sarkar, The Fall of the Mughal Empire, 4 vols, Calcutta, 1932. Equally important on the economic side were W. H. Moreland, From Akbar to Aurangzeb, London, 1923 and The Agrarian System of Moslem India, Cambridge, 1929. The post-independence revision of this work by the historians associated with Aligarh Muslim University are notably represented by Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707, London, 1963, the same author's 'Potentialities of capitalistic development in the economy of Mughal India'', Journal of Economic History, xxix, 1969, M. Athar Ali, The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, Bombay, 1968, and Satish Chandra, Parties and Politics at the Mughal Court 1707-40, Aligarh, 1959. The work of this whole group of historians is extended and summarised in The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. i, edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, Cambridge, 1982. J. F. Richards extended the Aligarh approach to the Deccan with his Mughal Administration in Golconda, Oxford, 1975, while the eighteenth century began to receive more attention with Noman Ahmed Siddiqi, Land Revenue Administration under the Mughals, 1700-1750, Bombay, 1970, and Zahir Uddin Malik, The Reign of Muhammad Shah, 1719-48, London, 1977.