Turkish History and Culture in India: Identity, Art and Transregional Connections

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
A Note on Transliteration and Dates
Notes on Contributors
Introduction • A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary
Part 1: Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India
1 Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert • George Malagaris
2 Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective • Stephen Frederic Dale
3 The “Advent of the Turks” and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century • Blain Auer
4 Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd Gāwān • Maya Petrovich
5 The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become Emperor • Ali Anooshahr
6 Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty • A.C.S. Peacock
Part 2: Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections
7 Transregional Connections: The “Lion and Sun” Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India • Shailendra Bhandare
8 When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia • Richard Piran McClary
9 The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space • Sara Mondini
10 “Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra”: Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds • Suraiya Faroqhi
11 Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination • Pınar Emiralioğlu
12 Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts • Benedek Péri
Index