Turkish History and Culture in India : Identity, Art and Transregional Connections.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- A Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary -- Part 1 -- Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India -- Chapter 1 -- Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert -- George Malagaris -- Chapter 2 -- Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective -- Stephen Frederic Dale -- Chapter 3 -- The "Advent of the Turks" and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century -- Blain Auer -- Chapter 4 -- Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd Gāwān -- Maya Petrovich -- Chapter 5 -- The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become Emperor -- Ali Anooshahr -- Chapter 6 -- Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty -- A.C.S. Peacock -- Part 2 -- Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections -- Chapter 7 -- Transregional Connections: The "Lion and Sun" Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India -- Shailendra Bhandare -- Chapter 8 -- When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia -- Richard Piran McClary -- Chapter 9 -- The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space -- Sara Mondini -- Chapter 10 -- "Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra": Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds -- Suraiya Faroqhi -- Chapter 11 -- Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination -- Pınar Emiralioğlu -- Chapter 12.

Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts -- Benedek Péri -- Index.

Turkish History and Culture in India examines the political, cultural and social role of Turks in medieval and early modern India, and their connections with Central Asia and Anatolia.

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