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Muzaffar Alam

When three Gujarati merchants asked the British for help against the Dutch

Cauth, Tulsidas and Benidas wrote to the Padshah (ruler) and other high authorities in England asking for assistance in recovering looted goods from the Dutch.

Muzaffar Alam
&
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
· Dec 26, 2022 · 07:30 pm
How did the Mughals in India reconcile political expediency with religious forces?

An excerpt from ‘The Mughals and the Sufis’, by Muzaffar Alam.

Muzaffar Alam
· Aug 02, 2021 · 08:30 am
Three recollections of Sunil Kumar, the historian who stood tall against majoritarian politics

In his book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate’, he argued that the sultanate was less a solid political entity than a fluid formation.

Rukun Advani
,
Muzaffar Alam
&
Nayanjot Lahiri
· Jan 24, 2021 · 12:30 pm