Books by John F. Richards

Professor Richard's work is based on part of a manuscript in the British Library concerned with the revenues and administration of the later Mughal Empire, and datable to the reign of the Emperor Bahadur Shah I (AD 1708-1712).

These studies consider the Mughal Empire's links with the wider early modern world, and focus on three related aspects of its history - the nature of imperial authority, fiscal and monetary policy, and why the system could not cope with the changes which it had helped to engender.