{"product_id":"india-in-the-persianate-age-10001765-9780141985398","title":"India in the Persianate Age 10001765","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world'' William Dalrymple, \u003ci\u003eSpectator \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land 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 between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard M. Eaton''s wonderful new book tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the rise of ''Persianate'' culture - a many-faceted transregional world informed by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRemarkable\u003c\/b\u003e... Richard Eaton's brilliant book stands as an important monument to this almost forgotten world. -- William Dalrymple * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eBy rethinking this history as India's 'Persianate age', Eaton breaks free from religious sectarianism that projects today's tensions into the past ... His book is a fine tribute to India. -- Tanjil Rashid * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant, gripping, refreshing and scholarly history of India\u003c\/b\u003e from 1000AD to the 1750s, analysing the power of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mogul Empire, its rise and decline and the rise of the East India Company - \u003cb\u003etotally essential reading.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenius ... \u003ci\u003eIndia in the Persianate Age\u003c\/i\u003e is Eaton's mature masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e It will, undoubtedly, become the authoritative account of this most politically controversial period of South Asia's long history. -- Katherine Schofield * History Today *\u003cbr\u003eA richly researched, badly needed and wholly convincing account ... \u003cb\u003eWorld history proves its worth.\u003c\/b\u003e -- John Keay * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eRichard Eaton employs rich empirical detail to demonstrate that intellectual encounters between the Sanksrit and Persian worlds were not tied to any one religion and that the two were not hostile ... and does so with great panache. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee * Business Standard *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732505211223,"sku":"9780141985398","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141985398.jpg?v=1719997177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/india-in-the-persianate-age-10001765-9780141985398","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}