The language of history : Sanskrit narratives of Indo-Muslim rule /
For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they ha...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Before Indo-Persian rule: many Sanskrit ways to write about Muslims
- 2. Difference that mattered: defining the Ghurid threat
- 3. Indo-Muslim rulers: expanding the world of Indian kingship
- 4. Local stories in fourteenth-century Gujarat and fifteenth-century Kashmir
- 5. Meeting the Mughals and reformulating Jain identity
- 6. Rajput and Maratha kingships in an Indo-Persian political order
- 7. Mughal political histories.