THEME FIVE
THROUGH THE EYES OF TRAVELLERS 115
Perceptions of Society
(c. tenth to seventeenth century)
THEME SIX
BHAKTI-SUFI TRADITIONS 140
Changes in Religious Beliefs
and Devotional Texts
(c. eighth to eighteenth century)
THEME SEVEN
AN IMPERIAL CAPITAL: VIJAYANAGARA 170
(c. fourteenth to sixteenth century)
THEME EIGHT
PEASANTS, ZAMINDARS AND THE STATE 196
Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire
(c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)
THEME NINE
KINGS AND CHRONICLES 224
The Mughal Courts
(c. sixteenth-seventeenth centuries)