Turkish history and culture in India

• Titel: Turkish history and culture in India
• Titelzusatz: identity, art and transregional connections
• Mitwirkende: Peacock, A. C. S. [HerausgeberIn] [VerfasserIn]
• Mitwirkende: McClary, Richard Piran [HerausgeberIn] [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Richard Piran McClary
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: XVI, 401 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Brill's Indological library ; volume 53
• Fussnoten: Most of the chapters in the present volume derive from discussions held at a workshop entitled "Rum and Hind: relations and shared experiences of conquest, acculturation and Turkish rule in pre-modern India and Anatolia" held on 25-26 May 2017, and organised by the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies at the University of St Andrews--ECIP galley ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43326-7
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43736-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Gesellschaft / (s)Türken / (s)Identität
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Turkish history and culture in India. - Leiden : Brill, 2020. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 402 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1700281232

Abstract

Part 1. Turkish Oorigins, identity and history in India -- Part 2. Art, material culture, literature and transregional connections

Abstract

"origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. Although many ruling dynasties and members of the elite in this period claimed Turkish descent, this aspect of their identity has seldom received much scholarly attention. The discussion is enriched by a focus on connections and comparisons with other parts of the broader Turko-Persian world, especially Anatolia. Although discussions of Turkish-Muslim rulers in India take account of their Central Asian origins and connections, links with Anatolia, stretching back to the medieval period, were also important in the formation of Turkish society and culture in India, and have been much less explored in the literature. The volume contains contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field"--