Vincent A. Smith's Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542 to 1605, published by Clarendon Press in 1917, is an early and influential scholarly biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar, including his religious policy and his syncretistic Din-i Ilahi. Its authority rests on Smith's own standing as a leading British historian of India in his period and the book's long-standing status as a foundational English language biography of Akbar. Its limit is age: more than a century of subsequent Mughal historiography, informed by different methodological approaches and by scholars working from a wider range of Persian language primary sources, has revised a number of Smith's specific interpretive judgments, particularly regarding colonial-era framings of Akbar's religious project, so a specific claim benefits from checking against more recent Mughal historical scholarship.
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Vincent A. Smith's Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542 to 1605, published by Clarendon Press in 1917, the top tier reflecting Smith's own standing as a leading British historian of India in his period, notwithstanding that more than a century of subsequent Mughal historiography, drawing on a wider range of Persian language primary sources, has revised a number of his specific interpretive judgments, particularly on colonial-era framings of Akbar's religious project. NotesScholarly biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar, Clarendon Press, 1917.
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AuthorVincent A. Smith
PublisherClarendon Press
Publication Year1917
Source Typeacademic monograph
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