Turkish History and Culture in India

Identity, Art and Transregional Connections
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43326-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 53, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

This interdisciplinary volume addresses the history, literature and material culture of peoples of Turkish origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. Although many ruling dynasties and members of the elite in this period claimed Turkish descent, this aspect of their identity has seldom received much scholarly attention. The discussion is enriched by a focus on connections and comparisons with other parts of the broader Turko-Persian world, especially Anatolia. Although discussions of Turkish-Muslim rulers in India take account of their Central Asian origins and connections, links with Anatolia, stretching back to the medieval period, were also important in the formation of Turkish society and culture in India, and have been much less explored in the literature. The volume contains contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Peacock, A.C.S.

McClary, Richard Piran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

A Note on Transliteration and Dates

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary

Part 1: Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India

1 Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert

George Malagaris

2 Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective

Stephen Frederic Dale

3 The “Advent of the Turks” and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century

Blain Auer

4 Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Mahmud Gawan

Maya Petrovich

5 The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muhammad Zaman Mirza Did Not Become Emperor

Ali Anooshahr

6 Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty

A.C.S. Peacock

Part 2: Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections

7 Transregional Connections: The “Lion and Sun” Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India

Shailendra Bhandare

8 When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia

Richard Piran McClary

9 The Jami Masjid Mihrab of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space

Sara Mondini

10 “Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra”: Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds

Suraiya Faroqhi

11 Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination

Pinar Emiralioglu

12 Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts

Benedek Péri

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Piran McClary, Ph.D. (2015), University of Edinburgh, is the lecturer of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He has published monographs, articles and book chapters on ceramics and architecture in the wider Iranian world, including Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220 (EUP, 2017).

A.C.S. Peacock, PhD (2003), University of Cambridge, is Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, UK. Publications include The Great Seljuk Empire (2015) and Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia (2019).