Catherine B. Asher is an art historian, focusing on the interaction between Muslims and non-Muslims. She has served as President of the Historians of Islamic Art, Vice President of the College Art Association and Chair of the CAA International Committee as well as Chair of the CAA Publications Committee. She has been Treasurer of the American Council for Southern Asian Art and Chair of the American Institute of Indian Studies Center for Art and Archaeology. Her publications include Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli (Marg Foundation); The Architecture of Mughal India (Cambridge University Press); and Perceptions of South Asia's Visual Past (American Institute of Indian Studies).
Preface; Glossary; Place names: alternative spellings; 1. Introduction: situating India; 2. The expansion of Turkic power, 1180
1350; 3. Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350
1550; 4. North India between empires: history, society, and culture, 1350
1550; 5. Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated; 6. Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550
1650; 7. Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia; 8. Challenging central authority, 1650
1750; 9. Changing socio-economic formations, 1650
1750; Epilogue; Biographical notes; Bibliography; Index.
