| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 395 pages) |
| Contents |
List of illustrations page -- List of maps -- Preface to First edition -- Preface to Second edition -- Glossary -- Place names: alternative spellings -- Introduction: situating India -- The expansion of Turkic power, 1180-1350 -- Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350-1550 -- North India between empires: history, society, and culture, 1350-1550 -- Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated -- Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550-1650 -- Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia -- Challenging central authority, 1650-1750 -- Changing socio-economic formations, 1650-1750 -- Epilogue -- Biographical notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from c. 1200 to 1750, before European intervention. In this thoughtfully revised and updated second edition, readers are taken on a richly illustrated journey across the political, economic, religious, and cultural landscapes of India - from the Ghurid conquest and the Delhi Sultanate, through the rise and fall of the southern kingdom of Vijayanagara and their successors, to the peripheries of empire, to the great court of the Mughals. This was a time of conquest and consolidation, when Muslims and Hindus came together to create a literary, material, and visual culture which was uniquely their own and which still resonates today |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Civilization.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- 1000-1765
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South Asia -- History
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India -- Civilization -- 1200-1765
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South Asia -- Civilization
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| Subject |
India.
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South Asia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Talbot, Cynthia, author
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| ISBN |
9781108591904 |
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1108591906 |
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