The Making of Indo Persian Culture: Indian and French Studies

The 16 essays that make up this volume were originally presented at a seminar 'The Evolution of Medieval Indian Culture: the Indo-Persian Context', held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli on 14-16 February 1994. The first part on 'Political Institutions and Ideas', is a reflection on the political ideology of Indo-Persian empires. The second part of the book is on 'Religious Traditions'. The third part on 'Painting' contains three papers on the formative phase of Mughal painting and book-illustration. There are two papers on 'Music'. The five articles in the fifth and final part of the volume on 'Literature, Historiography and Archives', analyse some Indo-Persian texts, survey sources and also endeavour to examine issues relating to Persian literary culture in India.