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Main sources of information for the history of the 13th century
- UPSC 1987
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
The thirteenth century sits at a hinge point in the source base of Indian history: the older epigraphic tradition of Sanskrit and Tamil land charters and temple inscriptions, still very much alive in the surviving southern kingdoms, is joined for the first time by a sustained tradition of Persian court historiography, produced by the newly…
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- Persian Chronicles of the Early Delhi Sultanate
- Epigraphic and Numismatic Evidence from Surviving Regional Kingdoms
- Foreign Travellers' Accounts
- Architectural and Monumental Evidence
- Periodising the Century: Why the Source Base Itself Splits
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