India In The Persianate Age. 1000-1765

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Allen Lane
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 488 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Remarkable... Richard Eatons brilliant book stands as an important monument to this almost forgotten world - William Dalrymple, The SpectatorA sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the BritishThe Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land 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. Eatons 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 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 Indias language, literature, cuisine, attire, religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, architecture, and more.The book brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between Indias Sanskrit culture - which 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, and made India what it is today.

ISBN: 9780713995824