Research Catalog

Title

Iran to India : the Shansabanis of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE / Alka Patel.

Author

Patel, Alka

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Description

xiii, 402 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 25 cm

Summary

"This book charts the origins and rise of the Shansabanis, a nomadic-pastoralist or transhumant group from modern central Afghanistan. As they adapted and mastered the mores of Perso-Islamic kingship, they created a transregional empire unseen in the region for almost a millennium, since the Kushanas of the early centuries CE. The Shansabanis' imperialism of little more than a half-century belies their longue durée significance: they altered the geopolitical landscapes of eastern Khurasan through the Indo-Gangetic plains, reconnecting these regions in continuous flows of people, objects, and ideas that broadened the Persianate world and had consequences into the modern age of nation-states in Central and South Asia."--

Subject

• 640-1256
• Architecture > Afghanistan > History
• Architecture > Pakistan > History
• Ghurids > History
• Architecture
• Ghurids
• Afghanistan > History
• Iran > History > 640-1256
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Pakistan

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-390) and index.

Call Number

JQF 23-355

ISBN

• 9781474482226
• 1474482228

OCLC

• 1272899529
• 1272899529

Author

Patel, Alka author.

Title

Iran to India : the Shansabanis of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE / Alka Patel.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-390) and index.

Chronological Term

640-1256

Other Form:

Ebook version: Patel, Alka. Iran to India. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] 9781474482257

Research Call Number

JQF 23-355