User:NoseFaceButt
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I am interested mainly in Mughal history, South Asian political economy, early modern administration, historiography, and Roman History.
Most of my editing has focused on expanding Mughal empire stuff because I was pretty shocked to find how incredibly underdeveloped it is.
Editing interests
- Mughal Empire
- Early modern South Asia
- Land revenue, fiscal administration, and agrarian history
- Historiography of Mughal decline
- Successor states and post-Mughal polities
- Basically any pre-colonial history stuff
Articles I created
| Article | Main subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Zabt | Mughal measurement-based land revenue system | Created as a full article on the Mughal revenue-assessment system, with sourcing, images, and later cleanup. |
| Jagirdari crisis | Late-Mughal crisis in jagir assignments and mansabdari politics | Created as a substantial article on the concept associated especially with M. Athar Ali and debates over Mughal decline. |
| Mughal successor states | Post-Mughal regional states and successor polities | Created and expanded with sections on Bengal, Awadh, Hyderabad, rival polities, political economy, historiography, and British intervention. |
| Mughal fiscal system | Revenue, treasury, coinage, expenditure, and fiscal institutions of the Mughal Empire | Created as a broad overview article separate from the general economy article. |
| Agrarian crisis of the Mughal Empire | Historiographical concept of agrarian crisis in Mughal decline debates | Created and expanded with sections on Habib's thesis, regional variation, causes, consequences, historiography, tables, and visual material. |
| Takht ya takhta | Mughal and South Asian political phrase associated with throne-or-destruction succession politics | Created and expanded with etymology, Mughal succession context, war-of-succession coverage, historiography, modern usage, and sources. |
Articles I have significantly expanded or reworked
| Article | Type of work |
|---|---|
| Dahsala system | Major revamp: rebuilt lead, background, implementation, methodology, geographic scope, primary sources, impact, historiography, and legacy. |
| Government of the Mughal Empire | Expanded lead and added or rewrote sections on imperial authority, central government, revenue administration, provincial administration, mansabdari, military organization, communications, decline, and historiography. |
| Economy of the Mughal Empire | Reworked lead and added material on revenue, trade, banking, urbanisation, monetary systems, regional economies, decline, historiography, and images. |
| Mughal fiscal system | Continued expansion after creation: land revenue, mansabdari and jagirs, non-agrarian revenue, coinage, treasury, crisis, historiography, legacy, tables, and images. |
| Agrarian crisis of the Mughal Empire | Expanded from skeleton into a full article with quantitative evidence, regional variation, historiographical comparison, consequences, sources, images, and chart/table material. |
| Mughal successor states | Built out the article with regional sections, historiography, political economy, British absorption, image panels, tables, and sources. |
| Takht ya takhta | Expanded from stub into a broader article on succession politics, etymology, Mughal war-of-succession context, historiography, and modern usage. |
Smaller contributions and cleanup
I also work on smaller improvements such as:
- fixing disambiguation links and redlinks;
- adding relevant internal links between related Mughal-history articles;
- adding or improving images, tables, charts, infoboxes, and navigation boxes;
- creating talk pages with WikiProject banners;
- improving article leads and section structure;
- removing maintenance templates after addressing the issue;
- adding sources, further reading, external links, and authority-control templates where useful.
Some pages I have touched in this way include Decline of the Mughal Empire, Shah Jahan, List of wars of succession, War of succession, Mughal war of succession (1658–1659), Gujarat Subah, Todar Mal, Mahalwari, Progressive tax, History of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent, Economic history of India, De-industrialisation of India, Humayun, League of Lords, Moravian Margrave Wars, Politics of Pakistan, Pakistan Stock Exchange, Federal Board of Revenue, Battle of Pollentia, and Tacitus (emperor).
Current focus
Current cluster: Mughal administration, economy revenue systems, agrarian crisis, successor states, and succession politics.
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