Isbn: 9780199450664 - after timur left: culture and circulation in fifteenth-century north india (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Papers presented at the Conference 'After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India' held at London during 29-31 May, 2007. Editor(s): Orsini, Francesca; Sheikh, Samira. Num Pages: 512 pages, 11 colour images, 2 b/w. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 39. Weight in Grams: 722. . 2014. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…