MEDIEVAL INDIA: Ideas Traditions and Cultural Values

This book contains twenty three well researched and documented_articles by scholars of repute of their respective field of specialization. Traditions and culture of Medieval Kashmir Kumaon Deccan and Awadh have been reassessed through new sources of information and fresh interpretations have been put forward for the academics to analyze.India's cultural interaction with Central Asia and Europeans provides a new perspective for the researchers-Of Medieval India. Similarly emergence of various-cultural and trade centres of Medieval India and its impact on the society has been meticulously studied and penned by the contributors of this book. The book includes traditional warfare building technology religious customs and practices state formation in Rajputana and articles based onvertiacular literature-.This work will surely attract the attention of scholars interested in a new theme of ideas tradition and cultural values of Medieval India. <B>About the Editor </B>Ali Athar is the former Chairman and Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study Department of History Aligarh Muslim University. His contribution to the field of military history has been acknowledged in the Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Themes in Indian History; and Warfare and History. He has also been extensively cited by authors on the history of warfare. He is also the former Coordinator of the Musa Dakri Museum of Aligarh Muslim University and has published Military Technology and Warfare in the Sultanate of Delhi (2006) Reinterpreting History of the Delhi Sultanate (2014) and History on Stones: Inscriptions of Aligarh Muslim University (2017) and Exploring Medieval India Through Persian Sources (2020)