Braj Bhum in Mughal Times : The State, Peasants and Gosā'ins (Hardcover)

Reconstructed history of three villages separately studied (Vrindavan, Radhakund and Rajpur), Mathura District, Western Uttar Pradesh, India.

Braj Bhūm in Mughal Times: The State, Peasants and Gosā'ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people in a small region of the Mughal Empire from about the accession of Akbar (1556) to the collapse of Mughal power (1739). The study brings out how the Mughal administration functioned on the ground, how peasant communities were organized and religious men conducted their worldly affairs. We are even able to meet some lowly men and women as distinct individuals.