| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2 | The History Cooperative

Jos Gommans. Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and High Roads to Empire, 1500–1700. (Warfare and History.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xv, 268. Cloth $80.00, paper $27.95.
This book is a timely and extremely valuable contribution to the history of early modern India. Since it is part of a series intended for a general audience, Jos Gommans has restricted his research to secondary literature, published Persian chronicles, and European travel accounts. His success lies not only in the new look he takes at a long-neglected topic but also in the rich comparative context he establishes with his frequent references to the other two early modern West Asian empires, the Safavid in Iran and the Ottoman in the Middle East.	1
The introductory chapter on ecology establishes an important distinction for the understanding of warfare in Mughal India. The arid zone of the northwest (the Indus and Ganges River valleys) and the monsoon zone of the northeast (Bengal, Assam, and Orissa) demanded different approaches to military recruitment, provisioning, and strategy. In order to mount successful campaigns, Mughal emperors and generals had to combine the two military styles of early modern Eurasia: those of the sedentary armies of Europe and monsoon Asia, on the one hand, with those of the nomadic armies of West and Central Asia, on the other.	. . .

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