- List of Maps* and Illustrations**
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Courtly Insults
- 2. Courtly Martyrdom
- 3. Courtly Representations
- Conclusion: Difficult Junctions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Maps:
- 1. The Deccan around 1565
- 2. The battle of January 1565
- 3. Aceh and the Malay world
- ** Illustrations:
- 1. Husain Nizam Shah observing court dancers (Ta‘rīf-i Husain Shāh)
- 2. Husain Nizam Shah rides into battle (Ta‘rīf-i Husain Shāh)
- 3. Rama Raya in the midst of battle (Ta‘rīf-i Husain Shāh)
- 4. The killing of Rama Raya (Ta‘rīf-i Husain Shāh)
- 5. Luís Monteiro Coutinho’s attack on a renegade castle in Solor
- 6. A naval battle off Melaka
- 7. Coutinho in combat with an Acehnese elephant
- 8. Coutinho prepares to be martyred
- 9. Willem Schellinks, “Hawking Party”
- 10. Willem Schellinks, “A Turkish Sultan and His Court”
- 11. Willem Schellinks, Mughal court scene with Shahjahan and his sons
- 12. Detail of Aurangzeb on a composite camel
- 13. Angelic musician on a composite camel
- 14. Detail of Akbar and Jahangir in apotheosis
- 15. Seventeenth-century Mughal painting of Akbar and Jahangir in apotheosis
- 16. Detail of the “magician” figure
- 17. Willem Schellinks, “Shahjahan Watching a Parade of His Sons on Composite Animals”
- 18. Late seventeenth-century portrayal of the Mughal emperor Akbar