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The Fārūqīs ruled the small sultanate of Khandesh, in the northwestern Deccan, from 772/1370 to 1009/1601. The Fārūqīs briefly claimed independence but were compelled to recognise that they could not wield as great a sovereignty as their neighbours. They employed the title Khān,…
Bayrām Khān Bahārlū Qarā Qoyūnlū, titled Khān-i Khānān (c. 902–68/1497–1561) was Humāyūn’s (r. 937–47/1530–40 and 962–3/1555–6) chief officer during the emperor’s return to Hindūstān in 962/1555 and then regent for Akbar (r. 963–1014/1556–1605) from 963/1556 to 967/1560. Bayrām …
Abū l-Fatḥ Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Akbar (949–1014/1542–1605, r. 963–1014/1556–1605) was the third Tīmūrid ruler in South Asia and the effective founder of the Tīmūrid empire. Although Akbar’s grandfather Bābur (r. 888–99/1483–94) brought Tīmūrid sovereignty south of the Hindu Kus…
Abū l-Faḍl-i ʿAllāmī (d. 1011/1602) was an advisor, biographer, and confidantof the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 963–1014/1556–1605) as well as one of the intellectual architects of the Mughal polity. His great work, Akbar-nāma , is simultaneously the most important source on A…
Introduction / Douglas E. Streusand -- Part I. Ronald W. Reagan and the Cold War -- The historiography of the end of the Cold War / Francis H. Marlo -- Ronald Reagan: the spirit behind the strategy / Francis H. Marlo -- The Cold War in context / Norman A. Bailey -- On the Nation…
This book accounts the Reagan administration's development and execution of the grand strategy that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, emphasizing the coordinated use of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power. It challenges the domi…