Synopsis The present volume on Muslim Rule in Deccan contains valuable information on: Deccan's contribution to Indian Culture; Notes on the Southern Incense Route of Arabia; Shaikh Muhammad Rukh Al-Din--His Role in Medieval Deccan; Political Status of Nizamu'l Mulk Asaf Jah-I in the Deccan (1713-1748 AD); The Garden of the Water Mill: Aurangabad; Nizamu'l Mulk's Vizierate; General Raymond of the Nizam's Army; Masulipatam--a Metropolitan Port in the Seventeenth Century; Modern Urdu Poets of Hyderabad; Arabian Larin; Ala-Ud-Din Khalji's Deccan Expeditions; Aurangzeb's Relations with Bijapur; Ethnic Change in the Bahamanid Society at Bidar; Haidarabad Under the Qutb Shahis; Deccani Preludes to Akbar's Social and Economic Reforms etc. Students, scholars and academics in the field of history, religion, culture and philosophy will find this volume most useful and informative.