History Of Medieval India By Satish Chandra Pdf Download: Discover the Rich and Diverse Heritage of India in the Middle Ages

Son of a diplomat Sir Sita Ram and born in Meerut, Chandra enrolled in Allahabad University in 1940 as an undergraduate student when the department of history was headed by Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan (1893-1948) and had acquired a reputation for research in medieval Indian history based on original sources. It was fostering a nationalist and liberal school of history writing which underlined the evolving cultures of harmony between different faiths in India since the earliest times. It brought forth the thesis that the Turks and Mughals furthered the political and cultural unity of India, and that colonial subjugation could not make the claim that this unity was a contribution of the British alone.

Having seen prospects of becoming a professor in Aligarh dashed, the disappointed Chandra had to move to Delhi in 1962. From there he moved on to Jaipur and explored Rajasthani sources to develop regional histories of medieval India. He then joined Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as one of its founding faculty. It was only after his pursuits that some other scholars like Dilbagh Singh (JNU) and S. P. Gupta (AMU) delved into Rajasthani sources to provide new dimensions to the Mughal and 18th-century history of India.

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Central Asia is located at the nexus of many great world civilizations, including the Persian, Indian, Turkic, and Chinese, and it has been the crossroads of the diverse cultures and civilizations since antiquity. It is an incredibly multi-cultural region that has played a unique role in human history. As the homeland of the Indo-Aryans who brought Hinduism to India, the region later became home to Zoroastrianism, and adopted Buddhism and Islam. It is considered the heart of Asia because of its centrality, but its crucial importance to the human story is little appreciated by the general public. The people of Central Asia, like those of India, have historically improved scientific and cultural practices of global importance, as well as innovating new technologies and enriching learning in all fields. This paper explores the exchanges of Indian and Turkic cultures in this essentially Persian cultural sphere during the period 700-1500 CE. This period spans the early Arab-Islamic conquests, the medieval Golden Age, the Mongol invasion, and the emergence of the major early modern civilizations of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. This period saw remarkable socio-cultural development with the fusions of many ethnic and cultural artefacts that were steadily reconciled and integrated into a remarkable civilization in its own right. While Islam provided the matrix for this remarkable exchange, it also included the contributions of peoples of diverse faiths and backgrounds, in a culture than celebrated diversity and multi-faith spirit, rather than merely tolerating others. It presents a valid illustration of the collaboration of human minds and the influences of intellectual and civilizational links on native traditions, belief, literature and arts. This analysis of Indo-Turkic cultures and civilizational exchanges between Central Asia and South Asia is based mainly on Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English sources, focused on the intellectual legacy, achievements, and role of Muslim polymaths in the preservation and development of wisdom, language, arts, architecture, culture, sciences, medicine, philosophy, and literature in relation to the Turkic and Indian cultural spheres.

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