About the Book: The Mughal and Sikh Rulers and the Vaishnavas of Pindori
Covering the period of over 150 Years from 1695 to 1859, this rich collection of
52 Persian documents is published with facsimiles, transcription, translation
and full annotation of each document. Together, these diverse documents provide
information on matters: political, social, economic and culture, with a bearing
on political history, polity, administrative practices, local functionaries,
legal practices at the court of the Qazi in realtion to property, role of
panchayats, madad-i mash and dharmarth grants, recipents of jagirs and state
patronage, and institutional continuity and change from the Mughal to the Sikh
rule in the Punjab