Truschke The Language of History

Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55195-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. Audrey Truschke offers a groundbreaking analysis of these texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Truschke, Audrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Scholarly Conventions
Select Time Line of Political Events, ca. 1190–1720
Introduction: Controversial History
1. Before Indo-Persian Rule: Many Sanskrit Ways to Write About Muslims
2. Difference That Mattered: Defining the Ghurid Threat
3. Indo-Muslim Rulers: Expanding the World of Indian Kingship
4. Local Stories in Fourteenth-Century Gujarat and Fifteenth-Century Kashmir
5. Meeting the Mughals and Reformulating Jain Identity
6. Rajput and Maratha Kingships in an Indo-Persian Political Order
7. Mughal Political Histories
Epilogue: Starting Points
Appendix: Select Translations from Sanskrit Histories
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Audrey Truschke is associate professor of history at Rutgers University–Newark. She is the author of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court (Columbia, 2016) and Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King (2017).