India in the Persianate age, 1000-1765 /
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of east and southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and especially central Asia and the Iranian plateau. Richard M. Eaton tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality, as he traces the rise of Persianate culture, a many-faceted transregional world connected by ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become progressively indigenized in the time of the great Mughals (sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). Eaton brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture, an equally rich and transregional complex that continued to flourish and grow throughout this period, and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and a host of regional states. This long-term process of cultural interaction is profoundly reflected in the languages, literatures, cuisines, attires, religions, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music and architecture, and more, of South Asia. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520325128 0520325125 9780520325135 0520325133 |