Finding the Local in Islamicate History Writing in India (1200–1400 CE)
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Title
Finding the Local in Islamicate History Writing in India (1200–1400 CE)
Journal
Asiatische Studien
ISSN
0004-4717 (print)
2235-5871 (electronic)
2235-5871 (electronic)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
18/11/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
74
Number
1
Pages
117-135
Language
english
Abstract
This paper discusses the idea of the “local” as it applies to Persian history writing across the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and produced in South Asia. Geographers ordered land and space with the concepts of climes (s. iqlīm) and regions (kishvar) which reflected different peoples and climates. Historians more generally related geography to power, and kingdoms (s. mamlakat) served as the primary geographical framework. How did imperial ideologies formulated in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Islamic courts define India through geographical and historical concepts? Does the idea of the “local” exist as a conceptual idea in history writing? This paper is concerned to understand how historical knowledge was used in this political context to define the localities and regions of India in relation to Delhi and other Islamic courts of India.
Keywords
Local history, Persian history writing, Thirteenth–fourteenth century India, Regional history, Conceptual history, India
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