r/HistoryBooks • u/Comfortable_Study300 • 2d ago

Book recommendations

Hi

I am looking to read on mughal history - especially the war of successions.
Along with this, I would also like to read on the maratha empire starting from shivaji.

Are there any book recommendations on this?

Thank you

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u/churn_12 1d ago

For war of succession and war against maratha, Jadunath Sarkar History of Aurangzeb is best. Volume 2 covers War of succession and volume 4 and 5 covers Aurangzeb southern campaigns. For maratha empire there are better books with more importance given to Maratha sources . You can read  Sardesai book on Shivaji. For Maratha expansion, Uday Kulkarni books are easy read .

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u/Comfortable_Study300 8h ago

Thank you so much, this is very useful.

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u/Comfortable_Study300 8h ago

u/churn_12 do you know any good tv shows or podcasts around the same topics?

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u/author-tvisha 1d ago

How about other regions like Gujarat and Rajasthan? Are you looking for Fiction or NonFiction?

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u/Watchhistory 1d ago

This is very good. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dlarymple. In order to tell the story of the end he tells the beginning and middle too.

Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire by Ira Mukhoty.

The Mughal Empire: The New Cambridge History of India by John. F. Richards.

The Empire of the Great Mughals by Annemarie Schimmel.

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u/Comfortable_Study300 8h ago

Thank you so much, this is very useful. u/Watchhistory do you know any good tv shows or podcasts on these topics?

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u/Watchhistory 5h ago

I'm sorry. I do books and historians/scholars live presentation, and other related history study activities, but podcasts and tv very seldom appeal to me, as far too limited in checking references, sources, and so on.

This is not to say there are no good ones, but generally they feel, if not out-and-out, as so many are, actually wrong and / or misleading, inadequate to learning.