After Timur Left - Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth Century North India

Zusatztext After Timur Left will stimulate new research on this neglected era; it should certainly be read by everyone with a serious interest in pre-colonial North India. Informationen zum Autor Francesca Orsini is Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.Samira Sheikh is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext The "long" fifteenth century in South Asia is persistently seen as a dark age of fragmentation and decline that ended only with the arrival of the Mughals. This volume looks beyond such assumptions and demonstrates the period to be one of intense cultural production, religious exchange and political innovations, many of which prefigured later Mughal developments and proved foundational for subsequent South Asian culture. Zusammenfassung Timur invaded northern India in 1398 but returned to Samarkand a year later. In 1555 the Timurid emperor Humayun came back to India after being forced into exile in Persia and re-established Mughal rule in northern India. Between these two significant dates stretches an era largely consigned to oblivion-the 'long' fifteenth century. The Mughal dynasty has long occupied a pre-eminent position in research on Indian history. It has also been credited with ushering in a radically new age of innovation in art, literature, and statecraft. But what of the period before the Mughals? With the empire-centred study of history privileging periods of political centralization, the multi-centred fifteenth century has remained relatively unexplored and undervalued. After Timur Left presents a path-breaking interdisciplinary set of writings on the politics, languages, religions, literatures, and arts of the fifteenth century. Together they reveal it to be a period of considerable political and social mobility, of cultural connectivity and consolidation, of innovation in literature and language choices, and of new forms of religious organization and expression. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Plates and Figures 1. Introduction by Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh STATES, SUBJECTS, AND NETWORKS 2. After Timur Left: North India in the Fifteenth Century by Simon Digby 3. Bandag? and Naukar? : Studying Transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, Thirteenth-Sixteenth Centuries by Sunil Kumar PUBLIC LANGUAGES 4. The Rise of Written Vernaculars: The Deccan 1450-1650 by Richard M. Eaton 5. Turki and Hindavi in the World of Persian: Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Dictionaries by Dilorom Karomat 6. Local Lexis? Provincializing Persian in Fifteenth-Century North India by Stefano Pello 7. Languages of Public Piety: Bilingual Inscriptions from Sultanate Gujarat, c. 1390-1538 by Samira Sheikh TELLINGS OF KINGS, SUFIS, AND WARRIORS 8. Universal Poet, Local Kings: Sanskrit, the Rhetoric of Kingship, and Local Kingdoms in Gujarat by Aparna Kapadia 9.Warrior-Tales at Hinterland Courts in North India, 1370-1550 by Ramya Sreenivasan 242 10. Emotion and Meaning in Mirigavati : Strategies of Spiritual Signification in Hindavi Sufi Romances by Aditya Behl CULTURAL SPACES AND LITERARY TRANSACTIONS 11. The Art of the Book in India under the Sultanates by Éloise Brac de la Perriere 12. Apabhramsha as a Literary Medium in Fifteenth-Century North India by Eva De Clercq 13. Early Hindi Epic Poetry in Gwalior: Beginnings and Continuities in the R?m?yan of Vishnudas by Imre Bangha 14. Traces of a Multilingual World: Hindavi in Persian Texts by Francesca Orsini Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Francesca/ Sheikh Orsini
• Assisted by: Francesca Orsini (Editor), Samira Sheikh (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2014
• EAN: 9780199450664
• ISBN: 978-0-19-945066-4
• No. of pages: 472
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous