The Life of Mir Jumla

The first critical and exhaustive study of the life of Mir Muhammed Said Mir Jumla, one of the towering personalities of medieval India, was published in 1951. With an extraordinary genious for war and diplomacy, civil government to Golkonda, dominated, like a colossus, the 17th century history of India from the Deccan to Delhi and Khandesh to Assam. His career is of absorbin interest not only to the student of political and diplomatic hostory but also of economic history of India. \nThe late Jadunath Sarkar hailed his book as an 'authoritative life' and 'a worthy supplement,