After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India
Francesca Orsini, Samira Sheikh, "After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India"
English | 2014 | pages: 470 | ISBN: 0199450668 | PDF | 17,9 mb
English | 2014 | pages: 470 | ISBN: 0199450668 | PDF | 17,9 mb
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.
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