India before Europe 9780521809047, 0521809045, 0521005396, 2005024164, 9780521005935

India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the

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India before Europe
 9780521809047, 0521809045, 0521005396, 2005024164, 9780521005935

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

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