Tuzak-i-Timuri
Author : Timur
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :
Author : Timur
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN :
Author : Michael Shterenshis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 113687366X
This book provides a general introduction to the history of Jewish life in 14th century Asia at the time of the conqueror Tamerlane (Timur). The author defines who are the Central Asian Jews, and describes the attitudes towards the Jews, and the historical consequences of this relationship with Tamerlane. Left alone to live within a stable empire, the Jews prospered under Tamerlane. In founding an empire, Tamerlane had delivered Central Asia from the last Mongols, and brought the nations of Transoxonia within the orbit of Persian civilisation. The Central Asian Jews accepted this spirit and preserved it until modern times in their language and culture.
Author : Balaji Sadasivan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9814311677
This book provides valuable insight on the history of India from ancient times to 1600 CE for Indians and non-Indians, and for the Indian Diaspora, which is estimated to be over 25 million, spreading across no less than 110 countries. The chapters cover many important aspects of history, from the ancient urban culture of the Indus Valley Civilization; Vedic Age's lasting legacy, Hinduism associated with the two great epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata; and the founding of Buddhism and Jainism; to the Muslim conquests and the resultant Indo-Islamic and Mughal heritage. Indian influence travelled beyond its shores to Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. The Angkor Wat, Borobudur and Prambanan temples reflect the cultural impact of the early Indian Diaspora. The famous Chinese monk Xuanzang who journeyed to Nalanda to study at that great University wrote extensively about India. This book will kindle interest in research on tracing the origins of the Indian Diaspora and the ancient ties that linked India to the rest of the world.
Author : H. M. Elliot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368126741
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1317586913
This book presents a comprehensive survey of warfare in India up to the point where the British began to dominate the sub-continent. It discusses issues such as how far was the relatively bloodless nature of pre-British Indian warfare the product of stateless Indian society? How far did technology determine the dynamics of warfare in India? Did warfare in this period have a particular Indian nature and was it ritualistic? The book considers land warfare including sieges, naval warfare, the impact of horses, elephants and gunpowder, and the differences made by the arrival of Muslim rulers and by the influx of other foreign influences and techniques. The book concludes by arguing that the presence of standing professional armies supported by centralised bureaucratic states have been underemphasised in the history of India.
Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 1994-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520079649
This engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. Gérard Chaliand has ranged over the whole of human history in assembling this collection—the result is an integration of the annals of military thought that provides a learned framework for understanding global political history. Included are writings from ancient and modern Europe, China, Byzantium, the Arab world, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire. Alongside well-known militarists such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Walter Raleigh, Rommel, and many others are "irregulars" such as Cortés, Lawrence of Arabia, and even Gandhi. Contrary to standard interpretations stressing competition between land and sea powers, or among rival Christian societies, Chaliand shows the great importance of the struggles between nomadic and sedentary peoples, and of the conflicts between Christianity and Islam. With the invention of firepower, a relatively recent occurrence in the history of warfare, modes of organization and strategic concepts—elements reflecting the nature of a society—have been key to how war is waged. Unparalleled in its breadth, this anthology will become the standard work for understanding a fundamental part of human history—the conduct of war. "This anthology is not only an unparalleled corpus of information and an aid to failing memory; it is also and above all a reliable and liberating guide for research. . . . Ranging "from the origins to the nuclear age," it compels us to widen our narrow perspectives on conflicts and strategic action and open ourselves up to the universal."—from the Foreword
Author : Edward A. Allworth
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0817987339
In this study of the modern Uzbeks, Professor Edward A. Allworth provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of an important group of Muslim people who live within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. After the Russians and the Ukranians, the Uzbeks are the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union and the strongest of a number of Muslim communities that populate the vast region of Central Asia.
Author : Fouzia Farooq Ahmed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1786730820
The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for over three centuries. The era, marked by the desecration of temples and construction of mosques from temple-rubble, is for many South Asians a lightning rod for debates on communalism, religious identity and inter-faith conflict. Using Persian and Arabic manuscripts, epigraphs and inscriptions, Fouzia Farooq Ahmad demystifies key aspects of governance and religion in this complex and controversial period. Why were small sets of foreign invaders and administrators able to dominate despite the cultural, linguistic and religious divides separating them from the ruled? And to what extent did people comply with the authority of sultans they knew very little about? By focusing for the first time on the relationship between the sultans, the bureaucracy and the ruled Muslim Rule in Medieval India outlines the practical dynamics of medieval Muslim political culture and its reception. This approach shows categorically that sultans did not possess meaningful political authority among the masses, and that their symbols of legitimacy were merely post hoc socio-cultural embellishments.Ahmad's thoroughly researched revisionist account is essential reading for all students and researchers working on the history of South Asia from the medieval period to the present day.
Author : Edward Balfour
Publisher :
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN :
Author : John Dowson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2022-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368131346
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.