India Before Europe

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M03 16 - 313 pages
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 the case in the India that existed from 1200 to 1750, before the European intervention. The book takes the reader on a journey across the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India, from the Ghurid conquests and the Dehli Sultanate to the great court of the Mughals. This was a time of conquest and consolidation, when Muslims and Hindus came together to create a unique culture which still resonates in today's India. As the first survey of its kind in over a decade, the book is a tour de force. It is beautifully illustrated and fluently composed, with a cast of characters which will educate students and general readers alike.

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Contents

Section 1
10
Section 2
25
Section 3
38
Section 4
53
Section 5
61
Section 6
84
Section 7
115
Section 8
117
Section 13
171
Section 14
174
Section 15
179
Section 16
184
Section 17
186
Section 18
189
Section 19
195
Section 20
201

Section 9
141
Section 10
152
Section 11
157
Section 12
167
Section 21
225
Section 22
256
Section 23
285

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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). Cynthia Talbot is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Religion, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (2001).

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