India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the
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Table of contents :
List of illustrations
List of maps
Preface
Glossary
Place names: alternative spellings
1 Introduction: situating India
2 The expansion of Turkic power, 1180–1350
3 Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350–1550
4 North India between empires: history, society, and culture, 1350–1550
5 Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated
6 Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550–1650
7 Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia
8 Challenging central authority, 1650–1750
9 Changing socio-economic formations, 1650–1750
Epilogue
Biographical notes
Bibliography
Index