A Book of Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY On my life, this is the land where when rain falls, milk, pearls and rubies grow Musk, amber, 'ud, and ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 77 tals, forts, networks of roads, and houses of worship as political acts with multiple agents-Muslim ...

3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? THE MORNING CHAI ROUTINE involved listening to petitions. Out- side the local court bu ...

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80 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? After a short while, he turned to his work, and I sat quietly ob- serving. He received ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 81 demonstrated that Chachnama cannot be read as a translation of a con- quest narrative ...

82 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? The archetypal names for the courtiers-Budhiman, meaning "wise one," and Ram, the deit ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 83 a theory of kingship: a king must rise to power with a combination of divine sanction ...

84 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? fully articulated. A noble in Dahar's court visits an astrologer and is impressed by h ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 85 akin to the formulations in the Pancatantra about the capacity of the owl to be a king ...

86 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? will is thus fulfilled: Dahar marries his sister, and using his political prowess, he ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 87 that this dedicated servant and all the nobles, servants, warriors, and groups of Musl ...

88 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? In the name of God, the Merciful, the Benevolent: Dear son, Karim al-Din[Benevolent wi ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 89 power in this exchange of advice is clear from the way in which Hajjaj begins his lett ...

90 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? action can be understood. The two sets of letters I have chosen to high- light here sh ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 91 erosity is the understanding that this is only the first phase of a wider campaign tha ...

92 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? theory, reveals that cohabitation and cooperation have high strategic value. The makin ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 93 of it. Greek understandings of India-and by extension, early modern Europe's understan ...

94 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? The Letter influences two particular strands of ludo-Persian histo- riography which we ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 95 Firdawsi's Shahnama had a profound influence. It is from Shahna- ma's Alexander narrat ...