India before Europe
2nd Edition
- Authors:
- Catherine B. Asher, University of Minnesota
- Cynthia Talbot, University of Texas, Austin
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108448901
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India is a land of enormous diversity. Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes they wear, and in the places they worship. This was ever the case, and at no time more so than in the India that existed from c. 1200 to 1750, before European intervention. In this thoughtfully revised and updated second edition, readers are taken on a richly illustrated journey across the political, economic, religious, and cultural landscapes of India – from the Ghurid conquest and the Delhi Sultanate, through the rise and fall of the southern kingdom of Vijayanagara and their successors, to the peripheries of empire, to the great court of the Mughals. This was a time of conquest and consolidation, when Muslims and Hindus came together to create a literary, material, and visual culture which was uniquely their own and which still resonates today.
Read more- Written by two leading scholars, this concise, accessible overview introduces readers to the period c.1200–1750 across the whole India subcontinent in one volume
- A highly flexible illustrated text that has been used by hundreds of instructors in a wide range of courses relating to political, social, economic and cultural history
- This second revised edition brings readers up to date with the latest scholarship, with fully updated coverage and a particular focus on ethnic, religious and non-elite groups, including women
Reviews & endorsements
'A delightful and incisive book, the second edition of India before Europe is a must-read for students of history. It combines the insights of a historian and art historian to dynamite effect as it narrates social, religious, artistic, and political developments in second-millennium South Asia.' Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University
See more reviews'What happens when two veteran scholars of premodern South Asia write a book about the 600 or so years leading up to the onset of British rule in India? They produce something wonderfully wide ranging and accessible, in whose prose is combined great personal insight and knowledge of the finest scholarship. I have used this text for all my South Asia survey classes for over a decade and am very grateful for this updated second edition.' Munis D. Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley
'This second edition of India before Europe is no mere reprint of the original. The engagingly written text moves seamlessly from discussions of political structure and social-economic history to consideration of large-scale cultural processes and the physical realia of architecture, painting, and textiles. A splendid accomplishment.' Phillip B. Wagoner, Wesleyan University
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108448901
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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