Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean (The World in a Life Series)

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A part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery across the Indian Ocean offers a rare look at an individual who began in obscurity in eastern Africa and reached the highest levels of South Asian political and military affairs in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Ambar’s rise from slavery in East Africa to ruler in South Asia sheds light on the diverse mix of people, products, and practices that shaped the Indian Ocean world all through the early modern period. Originally from Ethiopia–historically referred to as Abyssinia–Ambar is best known for having defended the Deccan from being occupied by the Mughals all through the first quarter of the seventeenth century. His ingenuity as a military leader, his diplomatic skills, and his land-reform policies contributed to his success in keeping the Deccan free of Mughal imperial rule.

We live in a global age where big concepts like “globalization” ceaselessly tempt us to fail to remember the personal side of the past. The titles in The World in a Life series aim to revive these meaningful lives. Each one shows us what it was once like to survive a world historical stage. Brief, inexpensive, and thematic, each book may also be read in a week, fit within a variety of curricula, and shed insight into a particular place or time. Four to six short primary sources at the end of each volume sharpen the reader’s view of an individual’s have an effect on on world history.

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