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1 online resource (xix, 318 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108680530
Content:
In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of striking ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. People used multifaceted trans-regional networks - mercantile, kinship, friendship and intellectual - to move across the Persian-speaking world and to find employment at the Deccan courts. This movement, Emma J. Flatt argues, was facilitated by the existence of a shared courtly disposition. Engagement in courtly skills such as letter-writing, perfume-making, astrological divination, performing magic, sword-fighting and wrestling thus became a route to both worldly success and ethical refinement. Using a diverse range of treatises, chronicles, poetry and letters, Flatt unpicks the ways this challenged networks of acceptable behaviour and knowledge in the Indo-Islamicate courtly world - and challenges the idea of perpetual hostility between Islam and Hinduism in Indian history.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108481939
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108741644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108481939
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108481939
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Flatt, Emma Jane The courts of the Deccan sultanates Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108481939
Language:
English
Keywords:
Dekhan
;
Iran
;
Hof
;
Einfluss
;
Beziehung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108680530
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