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Orsini, Francesca and Sheikh, Samira, eds. (2014) After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Edited Book or Journal Volume
Keywords: South Asia, medieval, sultanate, literature, Persian, Sanskrit, Afghans, Jains, bhakti, sufism, Hindi/Hindavi, epics, dictionaries, vernacular, Deccan
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia
ISBN: 9780199450664
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450664.001.0001
Date Deposited: 08 May 2015 15:59
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/19885

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