Thriving by 1400 B.C., by around 1000 B.C., the majority of the settlements of peninsular India were deserted. This book uses evidence from paleoclimate research, archaeology, and human skeletal material to examine life and death at three villages occupied during this time.
Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demon…
Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demon…
"Beginning in the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the…
Excerpt on Yusuf Beg ʻAdil Khan, from Rafi al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / translated by Wheeler Thackston -- Dynastic Self-Fashioning and the Arts of the Pen : Sufi and Calligraphy Networks between Fifteenth-Century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh -- On Heroes and Hist…
"Beginning in the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the…
"Beginning in the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the…
The visual world of Muslim India: the art, culture and society of the Deccan in the…
by Hutton, Deborah, Eaton, Richard Maxwell, Kruijtzer, Gijs, Sohoni, Pushkar, Philon, Helen, Overton, Keelan, Parodi, Laura, Khalidi, Omar, Michell, George, Sardar, Marika, Simpkins, Robert Alan, Rotzer, Klaus, Weinstein, Laura, Tucker, Rebecca, Haidar, Navina Najat
fromLibrary of South Asian history and culture
Selection of papers presented at a conference 'Art, Patronage and Society in the Muslim Deccan from the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day' (4-6 July 2008) at St. Antony's College, Oxford, with support from the John Fell Fund, Barakat Trust and Alessandro Bruschettini.
