John Richards Legacy

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John Richards was born in 1938 to his father Frank Richards and mother Ella Higgins in New Hampshire. In 1961, Richard graduated as a valedictorian from the University of New Hampshire and, in the same year, he got married to Ann Berry. In 1968, he was appointed in the University of Wisconsin. In 1970, he was awarded a PhD in History by the University of California. Five years later, Richard published Mughal Administration in Golconda. It this first publication that made Richard to be established as one of the greatest historians concerning the Mughal Empire in the United States. In 1993, he wrote The New Cambridge History of India, which was titled The Mughal Empire (1993). John Richards’ other works include Kingship and Authority in South Asia of 1998, The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India of 1987, The Unending Frontier: Environmental History of the Early Modern World of 2003 and The Mughal Empire of 1995.1 During the 1970s, Richards was highly involved in the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. …show more content…
As an historian of South Asia, Richards relays the book in such detailed and distinct construction of what was the Mughal Empire from its lives of emperors, its destruction, its operation, the individuals who influenced the emperors, and its artistic contribution to Indian culture. The Mughal Empire portrays Richards’s ability to carry forward the history concerning Mughal India in the centuries to come as it projects a legacy that was ancient yet powerful. While one inevitably agrees with Richards starting point of Bābur’s triumph in Pānīpat, the endpoint, which depicts the end of Mughal Empire, is somewhat