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Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self-contained world with its own religions, philosophies, and social systems. And yet this ancient land and its varied societies experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, and especially Central Asia and the Iranian plateau. Richard M. Eaton tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality, as he traces the rise of Persianate culture, a many-faceted transregional world connected by ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become progressively indigenized in the time of the great Mughals (sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries). Eaton brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture--an equally rich and transregional complex that continued to flourish and grow throughout this period--and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and a host of regional states. This long-term process of cultural interaction is profoundly reflected in the languages, literatures, cuisines, attires, religions, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, and architecture--and more--of South Asia.
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• Acknowledgments
• Note to the Reader
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction to Iranian Mobilities and Persianate Mediations in the Deccan / Keelan Overton
• 2. Iran and the Doors to the Deccan, ca. 1400-1650: Some Aspects / Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
• 3. Excerpt on Yusuf Beg 'Adil Khan, from Rafi' al-Din Shirazi's Tazkirat al-Muluk / Translated by Wheeler Thackston
• 4. Ghariban in the Deccan: Migration, Elite Mobility, and the Making and Unmaking of an Early Modern State / Roy S. Fischel
• 5. Dynastic Self-Fashioning and the Arts of the Pen: Sufi and Calligraphy Networks between Fifteenth-Century Shiraz and Bidar / Peyvand Firouzeh
• 6. From Iran to the Deccan: Architectural Transmission and the Madrasa of Mahmud Gavan at Bidar / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
• 7. Qur'an Manuscript No. 106 Copied by 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni al-Shirazi and Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza by Ibrahim Qutb Shah / Maryam Habibi, translated by Arash Khazeni
• 8. Vaqfnama of Ibrahim Qutb Shah in the 'Abd al-Qadir Qur'an Manuscript Endowed to the Shrine of Imam Riza / Translated by Jake Benson
• 9. Faith and Fate: The Khalili Falnama and Shi'i Identity in Golconda / Rachel Parikh
• 10. Indo-Persian Histories from the Object Out: The St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript between Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani Worlds / Keelan Overton and Kristine Rose-Beers (with contributions by Bruce Wannell)
• 11. The Qit'at-i Khushkhatt Album: Authenticity and Provenance / Jake Benson
• 12. Khalilullah "Padishah of the Pen": Royal Scribe and Ambassador of Shah 'Abbas and Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II / Hamidreza Ghelichkhani, translated by Kimia Maleki and Jake Benson
• 13. Forging a Canon of Dakhni Literature: Translations and Retellings from Persian / Sunil Sharma
• 14. On Heroes and History: Responding to the Shahnama in the Deccan, 1500-1800 / Subah Dayal
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In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.
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Papers presented at a seminar.

• Introduction
• 1. Iran's Foreign Policy: History, Geo-politics and Diplomacy as Determiners
• 2. Iran and the United States of America
• 3. The Conundrum: Iran's Relations with Regional Powers
• 4. Power and Rivalry: Iran and the Arab World
• 5. Iran's Complex Relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan
• 6. Prospects and Progress: Iran's Evolving Relationship with Russia and China
• 7. Iran's Engagement with Central Asia and South Caucasus
• 8. Pivotal Geography: India and Iran Relations Present Realities.
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This book analyses Iran's foreign policy in order to better assess its relations with India and the factors that are propelling the two nations closer. In a region susceptible to power plays, how far can India-Iran partnership go? This book will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Iranian Politics and Iranian Foreign Policy. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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Contributed articles presented at the International Seminar on Mir Syed Ali Hamadani and the relevance of the Sufi teachings in 21st century, held on March 09, 2010, at Poona and the International Seminar on "India and Iran: Our Cultural Legacy of the Past", organised by Pune University, held during April 3-5, 2011.

• Introduction: cosmopolitanism, courtliness and ethics in the Deccani Sultanates
• Part I. Courtly Society: 1. Courtly disposition
• 2. Networks, patrons and friends
• 3. Courts, merchants and commodities
• Part II. Courtly Skills: 4. Scribal skills
• 5. Esoteric skills
• 6. Martial skills
• Concluding remarks.
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In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of striking ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity. People used multifaceted trans-regional networks - mercantile, kinship, friendship and intellectual - to move across the Persian-speaking world and to find employment at the Deccan courts. This movement, Emma J. Flatt argues, was facilitated by the existence of a shared courtly disposition. Engagement in courtly skills such as letter-writing, perfume-making, astrological divination, performing magic, sword-fighting and wrestling thus became a route to both worldly success and ethical refinement. Using a diverse range of treatises, chronicles, poetry and letters, Flatt unpicks the ways this challenged networks of acceptable behaviour and knowledge in the Indo-Islamicate courtly world - and challenges the idea of perpetual hostility between Islam and Hinduism in Indian history.
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