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‘The period of Delhi Sultans witnessed the emergence of Indo-Persian culture.’ Discuss the statement with reference to developments in the fields of language, literature, art and social life.
- UPSC 1986
- Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Indo-Persian culture describes the composite civilization that took shape when the Persianate administrative and literary norms brought by the Turkish ruling elite fused with deep-rooted Indian traditions in language, architecture, and social custom. This was not a one-way imposition: Persian supplied the idiom of state and high literature, but its actual content — vocabulary, imagery,…
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- Language: Persian as State Language and the Birth of a Synthetic Vernacular
- Literature: A Twin Stream of Persian Belles-Lettres and Historiography
- Art and Architecture: The Making of the Indo-Islamic Style
- Social Life: Sufi-Bhakti Convergence and Everyday Syncretism
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