Exploring Medieval India through Persian Sources, 9789370829760

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Exploring Medieval India through Persian Sources

Pratapanand Jha (Editor) Ali Athar (Author)

Synopsis

Exploring Medieval India through Persian Sources revisits medieval Indian history through eleven authoritative and resourceful papers presented in a national seminar held at the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University in 2016 by scholars of repute. The Persian sources include political chronicles, biographical accounts, Insha literature, mystic literature (malfuzat, maktubat, etc.), dastur of Amal, farmans, nishan, parwana, foreigners’ accounts, vernacular literature, epigraphy, numismatic, archaeology and paintings. These papers should generate interest among the researchers to further showcase the world many a facet of India’s unknown intellect and history.

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About the author

Ali Athar

Ali Athar is the former Chairman and Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University. His contribution to the field of military history has been acknowledged in the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Themes in Indian History; and Warfare and History. He has also been extensively cited by authors on the history of warfare. He is also the former Coordinator of the Musa Dakri Museum of Aligarh Muslim University and has published Military Technology and Warfare in the Sultanate of Delhi (2006), Reinterpreting History of the Delhi Sultanate (2014), and History on Stones: Inscriptions of Aligarh Muslim University (2017) and Exploring Medieval India Through Persian Sources (2020)

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