Turkish history and culture in India : identity, art and transregional connections /
"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 compa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | Brill's Indological library ;
v. 53. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Chapter 1
- Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert
- George Malagaris
- Chapter 2
- Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective
- Stephen Frederic Dale
- Chapter 3
- The "Advent of the Turks" and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century
- Blain Auer
- Chapter 4
- Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd Gāwān
- Maya Petrovich
- Chapter 5
- The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become Emperor
- Ali Anooshahr
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 7
- Transregional Connections: The "Lion and Sun" Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India
- Shailendra Bhandare
- Chapter 8
- When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia
- Richard Piran McClary
- Chapter 9
- The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space
- Sara Mondini
- Chapter 10
- "Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra": Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds
- Suraiya Faroqhi
- Chapter 11
- Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination
- Pınar Emiralioğlu
- Chapter 12
- Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts
- Benedek Péri
- Index
