Origin Narratives, Legitimacy, and the Practice of Cosmopolitan Language in the Early Modern Deccan, India
(2015)
Journal Article
Fischel, R. S. (2015). Origin Narratives, Legitimacy, and the Practice of Cosmopolitan Language in the Early Modern Deccan, India. Purushartha, 33, 71-95. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsehess.23087
The paper discusses the ways in which the sultanates of Aḥmadnagar and Bījāpūr in the Deccan Plateau of peninsular India employed the Persian cosmopolitan language and the associated political idiom to construct the legitimacy of their ruling dynast... Read More about Origin Narratives, Legitimacy, and the Practice of Cosmopolitan Language in the Early Modern Deccan, India.