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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements ; Note on Transliteration ; List of Plates and Figures ; 1. Introduction by Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh ; STATES, SUBJECTS, AND NETWORKS ; 2. After Timur Left: North India in the ; Fifteenth Century by Simon Digby ; 3. Bandag? and Naukar? : Studying Transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, Thirteenth-Sixteenth ; Centuries by Sunil Kumar ; PUBLIC LANGUAGES ; 4. The Rise of Written Vernaculars: The Deccan 1450-1650 by Richard M. Eaton ; 5. Turki and Hindavi in the World of Persian: Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century ; Dictionaries by Dilorom Karomat ; 6. Local Lexis? Provincializing Persian in Fifteenth-Century North India by Stefano Pello ; 7. Languages of Public Piety: Bilingual Inscriptions from Sultanate Gujarat, c. 1390-1538 by Samira Sheikh ; TELLINGS OF KINGS, SUFIS, AND WARRIORS ; 8. Universal Poet, Local Kings: Sanskrit, the Rhetoric of Kingship, and Local Kingdoms in Gujarat by Aparna Kapadia ; 9.Warrior-Tales at Hinterland Courts in North India, 1370-1550 by Ramya Sreenivasan 242 ; 10. Emotion and Meaning in Mirigavati : Strategies of Spiritual Signification in Hindavi Sufi Romances by Aditya Behl ; CULTURAL SPACES AND LITERARY TRANSACTIONS ; 11. The Art of the Book in India under the Sultanates by Eloise Brac de la Perriere ; 12. Apabhramsha as a Literary Medium in Fifteenth-Century North India by Eva De Clercq ; 13. Early Hindi Epic Poetry in Gwalior: Beginnings and Continuities in the R?m?yan of Vishnudas by Imre Bangha ; 14. Traces of a Multilingual World: Hindavi in Persian Texts by Francesca Orsini ; Bibliography ; About the Editors and Contributors ; Index