Age of Wrath The (PB)

The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos and violence-of plundering kings turbulent dynasties and the aggressive imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that saw the creation of a pan-Indian empire on the foundations of which the Mughals and the British later built their own Indian empires. The encounter between Islam and Hinduism also transformed among other things India's architecture literature music and food. Abraham Eraly brings this fascinating period vividly alive combining erudition with powerful storytelling and analysis with anecdote. About the Author Abraham Eraly is the author of four acclaimed volumes on premodern Indian history---The Last Spring The Lives and Times of the Great Mughals (later published in two volumes as Emperors of the Peacock Throne and The Mughal World) Gem in the Lotus The Seeding of Indian Civilisation The First Spring The Golden Age of India and The Age of Wrath A History of the Delhi Sultanate. He was born in Kerala and educated there and in Chennai. He has taught Indian history in colleges in India and the United States and was the editor of a current affairs magazine for several years.