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Cover 2 Title page 3 Contents 5 Also by the Author 6 List of Images 9 List of Tables 10 Preface and Acknowledgements 11 Note on Translations and Scholarly Conventions 13 Timeline of Select Political Events, c. 1190–1720 15 Introduction: Controversial History 17 1. Before Indo-Persian Rule: Many Sanskrit Ways to Write about Muslims 48 2. Difference that Mattered: Defining the Ghurid Threat 66 3. Indo-Muslim Rulers: Expanding the World of Indian Kingship 91 4. Local Stories in Fourteenth-Century Gujarat and Fifteenth-Century Kashmir 126 5. Meeting the Mughals and Reformulating Jain Identity 165 6. Rajput and Maratha Kingships in an Indo-Persian Political Order 198 7. Mughal Political Histories 231 Epilogue: Starting Points 256 Appendix: Select Translations from Sanskrit Histories 267 Illustrations 289 Notes 297 Glossary 382 Bibliography 387 Follow Penguin 424 Copyright 425

Author

Audrey Truschke

Publisher

Penguin Random House India Private Limited

Language

EN