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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates - Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis (Paperback)
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The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates - Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis (Paperback)
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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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