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The Indian Frontier - Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (Hardcover)
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The Indian Frontier - Horse and Warband in the Making of Empires (Hardcover)
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This omnibus brings together some old and some recent works by Jos
Gommans on the warhorse and its impact on medieval and early modern
state-formation in South Asia. These studies are based on Gommans'
observation that Indian empires always had to deal with a highly
dynamic inner frontier between semi-arid wilderness and settled
agriculture. Such inner frontiers could only be bridged by the
ongoing movements of Turkish, Afghan, Rajput and other warbands.
Like the most spectacular examples of the Delhi Sultanate and the
Mughal Empires, they all based their power on the exploitation of
the most lethal weapon of that time: the warhorse. In discussing
the breeding and trading of horses and their role in medieval and
early modern South Asian warfare, Gommans also makes some
thought-provoking comparisons with Europe and the Middle East.
Since the Indian frontier is part of the much larger Eurasian Arid
Zone that links the Indian subcontinent to West, Central and East
Asia, the final essay explores the connected and entangled history
of the Turko-Mongolian warband in the Ottoman and Timurid Empires,
Russia and China.
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