Gunpowder and firearms : warfare in medieval India
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Gunpowder and firearms : warfare in medieval India
（Aligarh historians society series）
Oxford University Press, c2004
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Bibliography: p. [227]-246
Includes index
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内容説明
Gunpowder is widely recognized as an important technological factor behind political and even social change. This book surveys the history of gunpowder and firearms in India, tracing their arrival in the thirteenth century from China and in the late fifteenth century from Europe and examining the role played by the Mongols and the Portuguese in this transmission. Alongside this narraive of the diffusion of firearms, the book looks at their impact on the nature of the regional states in the fifteenth century and on the Mughal empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The hypothesis of "gunpowder empires" advanced by Hodgson is tested by a study of the development of muskets and the increasing potency of musketry. The book goes on to consider the growing obsolescence of the Mughal firearms from the middle of the seventeenth century onwards, as seen in the failure of Mughal artilery against the Persians at Qandahar (1652-3) and Karnal (1739).
Simultaneaously, it examines the extent of the dissemination of muskets among peasant communities and relates this development to the growing militancy of certain sections of the rural population and the subsequent decline of the Mughal empire.
目次
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. Introdution of Gunpowder and Early Firearms in Inida During the Thirteenth Century
- 2. Gunpowder Artilery in India During the Fifteenth Century
- 3. Indian Response to European Gunnery: 1498-1556
- 4. Artilery in Mughal India: 1556-1739
- 5. The Nature of Handguns in Mughal India: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- 6. The Matchlock as an Instrument of Centralization
- 7. Muskets and Peasant Resistance
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX A: USE OF FIREARMS BY THE MONGOLS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD DURING THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
- APPENDIX B: MUHAMMAD QASIM FIRISHTA ON THE INTRODUCTION OF FIREARMS IN THE BAHAMANI KINGDON
- APPENDIX C: THE ALLEGED PRESENCE OF CANNON IN THE DELHI SULTANATE DURING THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES: AKRAM MAKHDOMMEE'S AND ADU ZAFAR NADVI'S THESES
- APPENDIX D: RE-EXAMINING THE ORIGIN AND THE GROUP IDENTITY OF THE SO-CALLED IPURIBAS, 1500-1800
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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