Download or read book The Formation of the Mughal Empire written by Douglas E. Streusand and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Mughal empire examines the rituals of the Mughal court, the process of the empire's expansion, and Akbar's political and administrative initiatives in order to explain the fundamental characteristics of the Mughal polity. Streusand also places Mughal institutions and practices in their political and cultural contexts to explain how the Mughal ruling class coalesced from heterogeneous groups that retained their own identities.