« The Deccan Frontier and Mughal Expansion, Ca. 1600: Contemporary Perspectives ». Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 47/3 (2004), pp. 357-389.

Upon reading Alam and Subrahmanyam’s work, one can begin to appreciate the futility of trying to understand the relationship between the Mughal state and the Deccan in a binary framework. The Deccan was indeed an intense nexus of political, social, economic and cultural interactions between a plethora of political and ethnic groups, and there is a wealth of available sources to reflect these different perspectives (Portuguese, Mughal, Deccani, to name a few). The authors argue that it would b..