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Evaluate the ‘Kitab al-Hind’ of Alberuni as a source of history of India.
- UPSC 2014
- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Composed around 1030 CE by the Khwarizmi polymath Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, who reached India in the entourage of Mahmud of Ghazni and stayed on to master Sanskrit and interrogate Brahmanical learning at first hand, the Kitab al-Hind stands apart from both the Perso-Islamic chronicle tradition and the Puranic genealogical mode by attempting a structured, comparative…
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