"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world history"--Provided by publisher.
Prologue : setting the stage, 1504-1707 -- The early years, 1504-1556 -- Princely households -- Friends and allies -- Disobedience and rebellion -- Wars of succession -- The prince shackled, 1680s-1707.
Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥakīm (961–93/1554–85) was a younger half-brother and major political competitor of Akbar (r. 963–1014/1556–1605), third emperor of the Mughal Empire. He was born in 961/1554 to the Mughal emperor Humāyūn (r. 937–47/1530–40, 962–3/1555–6) and Māh Chuchak Bīgam (d.…