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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine B Asher; Cynthia Talbot |
ISBN: | 0521809045 9780521809047 0521005396 9780521005395 |
OCLC Number: | 61303480 |
Description: | xxii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: situating India -- The expansion of Turkish power, 1180-1350 -- Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350-1550 -- North India between empires: history, society, and culture, 1350-1550 -- Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated -- Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550-1650 -- Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia -- Challenging central authority, 1650-1750 -- Changing socio-economic formations, 1650-1750. |
Responsibility: | Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot. |
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Abstract:
The first survey in a decade of the political, economic, religious and cultural landscapes of medieval India from 1200 to 1750. It is beautifully illustrated and fluently composed, with a cast of characters which will educate and entertain students and general readers alike.
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'Asher and Talbot provide an excellent introduction, very necessary in this type of academic work ... the excellent maps ... assist our understanding of the subject matter ... I am convinced that as a model for writing an academic book India before Europe succeeds ... The photographs mostly by Frederick M. Asher and Catherine B Asher are likewise first class ...' The Journal of the Open University History Society '... this book will remain a standard in the field for many decades and belongs on the bookshelf of every scholar of South Asia.' Religious Studies Review Read more...
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