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Informationen zum Autor Catherine B. Asher is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Her previous publications include Architecture of Mughal India (1992) and, as editor with Thomas R. Metcalf, Perceptions of South Asia's Visual Past (1994). Klappentext India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was especially true of the India that existed from 1200 to 1750, before the European intervention. This beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a journey across the political, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India. It is fluently composed, with a cast of characters which will educate students and general readers alike. Zusammenfassung The first survey in a decade of the political! economic! religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India from 1200 to 1750. It is beautifully illustrated and fluently composed! with a cast of characters which will educate and entertain students and general readers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Glossary; 1. Introduction: situating India; 2. The expansion of Turkish power, 1180-1350; 3. Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350-1550; 4. North India between empires: history, society, and culture, 1350-1550; 5. Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated; 6. Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550-1650; 7. Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia; 8. Challenging central authority, 1650-1750; 9. Changing socio-economic formations, 1650-1750; Epilogue; Biographical notes; Bibliography.
