"India’s most famous early legal code, The Laws of Manu were complied over the years between 200 - 400 C.E. While the position of women in early Vedic India had been good, these laws illustrate the efforts of the Brahmin elite to restrict women’s legal independence in this later period."
Babur was the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty. His memoirs are essentially the first autobiography in Islamic literature and detail his "observations of the world in which he lived...physical and human geography, the flora and fauna, nomads in their pastures and urban environments..."
including the Mughal empire. This reference is based on research ranging over a wide range of primary sources, providing excerpts of relevant passages in English translation. Many of these texts were written by authors who accompanied the invaders and recorded what they saw in Arabic, Persian or Turkish. The source of these excerpts are the translations made by Sir H. M. Elliot, and edited and published in 24 volumes by John Dowson in 1867.
Extensive and well-organized collection of links - most primary sources. Also see the sections "Maps of South Asia (and Beyond)" and "South Asian literature.
