After Timur Left

Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-945066-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orsini, Francesca

Sheikh, Samira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.