After Timur Left Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India

Francesca Orsini, Professor, Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor, History, Vanderbilt University

Francesca Orsini is Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Samira Sheikh is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Plates
1. Introduction
States, subjects, and networks
2. After Timur Left: North India in the Fifteenth Century -- Simon Digby
3. Bandag? and Naukar?: Studying Transitions in Political Culture and Service under the North Indian Sultanates, 13th-16th Centuries-- Sunil Kumar
Public languages
4. The Rise of Written Vernaculars: The Deccan 1450-1650-- Richard Eaton
5. Turki and Hindavi in the world of Persian: Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Dictionaries -- Dilorom Karomat
6. Local Lexis? Provincializing Persian in Fifteenth-Century North India --Stefano Pello
7. Languages of Public Piety: Bilingual inscriptions from Sultanate Gujarat, c. 1390-1538 - Samira Sheikh
Telling of kings, Sufis, and warriors
8. Universal Poet, Local Kings: Sanskrit, the Rhetoric of Kingship and Local Kingdoms in Gujarat -- Aparna Kapadia
9. Warrior-tales at Hinterland Courts in North India, ca. 1370-1550 - Ramya Sreenivasan
10. Emotion and Meaning in Mirig?vat?: Strategies of Spiritual Signification in Hindavi Sufi Romances --Aditya Behl
Cultural spaces and literary transactions
11. The Art of the Book in India under the Sultanates -- Eloise Brac de la Perriere
12. Apabhramsha as a literary medium in fifteenth century North India -- Eva de Clerq
13. Early Hindi Epic Poetry in Gwalior: Beginnings and Continuities in the R?m?yan of Vishnudas -- Imre Bangha
14. Traces of a Multilingual World: Hindavi in Persian Texts - Francesca Orsini
Bibliography
Note on Editors and Contributors
Index