Catherine B Asher, Cynthia Talbot

India Before Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428163
• ISBN-10: 1108428169
• Artikelnr.: 64171101

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.