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India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765
- Title
- India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 / Richard M. Eaton.
- Author
- Eaton, Richard Maxwell
- Publication
- London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xiv, 488 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- The Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it created 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 between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Richard M. Eaton's wonderful new book tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the rise of 'Persianate' culture - a many-faceted transregional world informed and stabilized by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become thoroughly indigenized by the time of the great Mughals in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This long-term process of cultural interaction and assimilation is reflected in language, literature, cuisine, attire, religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, architecture, and more. The book brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture ('the Lotus') - an equally rich and transregional complex that continued to flourish and grow throughout this period - and Persian culture ('the Lion'), which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and a host of regional states. --
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The growth of Turkic power, 1000-1300 -- The diffusion of Sultanate systems, 1200-1400 -- Timur's invasion and legacy, 1400-1550 -- The Deccan and the South, 1400-1650 -- The consolidation of Mughal rule, 1526-1605 -- India under Jahangir and Shah Jahan, 1605-1658 -- Aurangzeb : from Prince to Emperor 'Alamgir, 1618-1707 -- Eighteenth century transitions -- Conclusion and epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10323
- ISBN
- 9780713995824
- 0713995823
- OCLC
- 1103492435
- Author
- Eaton, Richard Maxwell, author.
- Title
- India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765 / Richard M. Eaton.
- Publisher
- London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1000-1765
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Eaton, Richard Maxwell. India in the Persianate Age. London : Penguin Books, 2019 9780141966557 (OCoLC)1110434668
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10323