Studies in medieval Indian polity and culture :

Habib, Mohammad,

Studies in medieval Indian polity and culture : the Delhi Sultanate and its times / Mohammad Habib ; edited and with an introduction by Irfan Habib. - First edition. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016. - viii, 508 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni Chapter 2. Life and Thought of Ziyauddin Barani Chapter 3. Introduction to Elliot and Dowson's History of India Vol. II Chapter 4. Presidential Address Indian History Congress (Bombay, 1947) Chapter 5. Hazrat Amir Khusrau of Delhi Chapter 6. Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud Chiragh-i Delhi as a Great Historical Personality Chapter 7. Chishti Mystic Records of the Sultanate Period.

The volume cover the entire political history of Delhi Sultanate, focusing on Mahmud Ghazni's campaigns, Ziyauddin Barani's descriptions, Sufi saints and their records, as well as peasants, artisans, tailors, weavers and a plethora of people who constituted the landscape of the subcontinent during the eleventh to seventeenth centuries.

9780198069942 0198069944


Delhi (Sultanate)--Politics and government.
Delhi (Sultanate)--History.

954.56 / HAB

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