Against the Mughals: Dreams and Wars of Dattu Sarvani, a Sixteenth-Century Indo-Afghan Soldier - Hardcover

Digby, Simon: - Simon Digby (1932-2010) was one of the foremost scholars on pre-Mughal India as well as a prolific writer, translator and collector. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, curator in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford, and a member of the Oriental Institute of the university. His contribution to the study of Indian history can be seen by a glance through his bibliography, which demonstrates his wide-ranging research into disparate fields. Throughout his illustrious career, he wrote several books that are considered path-breaking in their field, including Wonder Tales of South Asia and War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate.Lunn, David: - David Lunn was the Simon Digby Postdoctoral Fellow at SOAS (2015-18) and is currently an independent scholar. He taught extensively at SOAS in the fields of South Asian, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies (2007-23) and was, latterly, branch secretary of the UCU trade union. He has published on Hindi-Urdu and Hindu-Muslim relations in pre-Independence India, early Hindustani cinema, a unique Malay poetic account of Muharram in nineteenth-century Singapore, the poetry of Emperor Shāh 'Ālam II, and the queer satire of the Indo-Irish author Aubrey Menen.