After Timur Left Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in Fifteen Century
Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India
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9780199450664
Publication date:
13/10/2014
Hardback
512 pages
223.0x150.0mm
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9780199450664
Publication date:
13/10/2014
Hardback
512 pages
223.0x150.0mm
Francesca Orsini & Samira Sheikh
The 'long' fifteenth century in South Asia is persistently seen as a dark age of fragmentation and decline that ended only with the arrival of the Mughals. This volume looks beyond such assumptions and demonstrates the period to be one of intense cultural production, religious exchange, and political innovations, many of which prefigured later Mughal developments and proved foundational for subsequent South Asian culture.
Suitable for: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of medieval India, social and cultural history of South Asia, literary and cultural studies.
Rights: World Rights
Francesca Orsini & Samira Sheikh
Description
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.
Francesca Orsini & Samira Sheikh
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Francesca Orsini & Samira Sheikh
Francesca Orsini & Samira Sheikh
Description
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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