Letters from a sinking sultan -- TheMughals look beyond the winds -- On the end of the Akbari dispensation -- The Deccan frontier and Mughal expansion, c. 1600 -- Faizi's Nal-Daman and its long afterlife -- Catholics and Muslims in the court of Jahangir (1608-1611) -- The making of a Munshi -- Trade and politics in the Arcot Nizamat (1700-1732) -- Eighteenth-century historiography and the world of the Mughal Munshi -- The political thought of a late eighteenth-century Mughal prince.