The Language of History : : Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule / / Audrey Truschke.
For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they ha...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Scholarly Conventions
- Select Time Line of Political Events, ca. 1190– 1720
- Introduction Controversial History
- CHAPTER I Before Indo- Persian Rule Many Sanskrit Ways to Write About Muslims
- CHAPTER II Difference That Mattered Defining the Ghurid Threat
- CHAPTER III Indo- Muslim Rulers Expanding the World of Indian Kingship
- CHAPTER IV Local Stories in Fourteenth- Century Gujarat and Fifteenth- Century Kashmir
- CHAPTER V Meeting the Mughals and Reformulating Jain Identity
- CHAPTER VI Rajput and Maratha Kingships in an Indo- Persian Political Order
- CHAPTER VII Mughal Political Histories
- Epilogue Starting Points
- APPENDIX Select Translations from Sanskrit Histories
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index