After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199450664)

Timur invaded northern India in 1398 but returned to Samarkand a year later. In 1555 the Timurid emperor Humayun came back to India after being forced into exile in Persia and re-established Mughal rule in northern India. Between these two significant dates stretches an era largely consigned to oblivion-the 'long' fifteenth century.

The Mughal dynasty has long occupied a pre-eminent position in research on Indian history. It has also been credited with ushering in a radically new age of innovation in art, literature, and statecraft. But what of the period before the Mughals?

With the empire-centred study of history privileging periods of political centralization, the multi-centred fifteenth century has remained relatively unexplored and undervalued.

After Timur Left presents a path-breaking interdisciplinary set of writings on the politics, languages, religions, literatures, and arts of the fifteenth century. Together they reveal it to be a period of considerable political and social mobility, of cultural connectivity and consolidation, of innovation in literature and language choices, and of new forms of religious organization and expression.

Author: Francesca Orsini
ISBN-10: 0199450668
ISBN-13: 9780199450664
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/25/2014
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.90w x 1.70d