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INDIA
Multiple Authors
This series of entries covers Indian history and its relations with Iran.
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INDIA i. Introduction
Christopher J. Brunner
This entry presents a series of survey articles on selected areas of interaction and mutual influence between the two culture areas, including overviews of the enormous body of literature produced in India in the Persian language.
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INDIA ii. Historical Geography
Pierfrancesco Callieri
The geographical borders between the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent are well defined by features, such as mountain ranges, which represent the western limits of the Indus River valley.
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INDIA iii. RELATIONS: ACHAEMENID PERIOD
Pierfrancesco Callieri
The conquest by Darius I of the territories of the Indian subcontinent west of the Indus for the first time created a clear relationship between India and Iran.
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INDIA iv. RELATIONS: SELEUCID, PARTHIAN, SASANIAN PERIODS
Pierfrancesco Callieri
Seleucus I (d. 281 BCE) led an expedition to India (Matelli, 1987) ca. 305 B.C.E. It ended, however, with the cession of territories to a new Indian king, Candragupta Maurya.
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INDIA v. RELATIONS: MEDIEVAL PERIOD TO THE 13TH CENTURY
C. Edmund Bosworth
The first political and military footholds of the Muslims in the subcontinent proper were in Sind, and at Multan in the middle Indus valley, secured in the early 8th century.
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INDIA vi. Political and Cultural Relations (13th-18th centuries)
Richard M. Eaton
Relations between peoples of the Iranian plateau and India were extensive and uninterrupted between the 13th and 18th centuries. Migration, commerce, and politics all led to a range of cross-regional influences.
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INDIA vii. RELATIONS: THE AFSHARID AND ZAND PERIODS
Mansour Bonakdarian
The invasion of the Persian capital (Isfahan) by Ḡilzai Afghan forces in 1722 and the collapse of Safavid central authority had a marked impact on Indo-Persian relations,
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INDIA viii. RELATIONS: QAJAR PERIOD, THE 19TH CENTURY
Mansour Bonakdarian
By the time of Āqā Moḥammad Khan’s founding of the Qajar dynasty in 1796, Persia’s diplomatic relations with the Mughal empire and other territories in the Indian subcontinent were gradually passing under the supervision of British authorities in India.
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INDIA ix. RELATIONS: QAJAR PERIOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Mansour Bonakdarian
The contributions made by various non-Iranian individuals and groups to the constitutional/ nationalist cause in Persia have long been acknowledged in the historiography of the revolution.
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INDIA x. RELATIONS: PAHLAVI PERIOD
Cross-Reference
Iranian-Indian relations during the Pahlavi period will be discussed in a future online entry.
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INDIA xi. RELATIONS: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Cross-Reference
See Supplement.
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INDIA xii. ISLAMIC DYNASTIES OF
Cross-Reference
See under individual dynasties.
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INDIA xiii. INDO-IRANIAN COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
Scott C. Levi
Indo-Persian commercial relations were mediated by merchants originating from India, Persia, Afghanistan, and later Europe. Ethnic minority groups, such as Armenians and Jews, also played an important role in Persia’s international commercial relations.
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INDIA xiv. Persian Literature
Mario Casari
The amount of Persian literature composed in the Indian subcontinent up to the 19th century is larger than that produced in Iran proper during the same period.
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INDIA xv. Persian Correspondence Literature
cross-reference
See CORRESPONDENCE iv.
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INDIA xvi. INDO-PERSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Stephen F. Dale
Historical works in Persian began to appear in India in the era of the Delhi Sultanate during the late 13th to 14th centuries.
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INDIA xvii. PERSIAN PRESS IN
cross-reference
See INDIA viii and INDIA ix. See also CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION vi and ḤABL AL-MATIN.
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INDIA xviii. PERSIAN ELEMENTS IN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Christopher Shackle
Some Persian elements are present in most of the modern languages of the subcontinent of South Asia, as a consequence of the prolonged cultivation of Persian associated with pre-modern Indo-Muslim culture.
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INDIA xix. INDIAN LITERARY INFLUENCES ON PERSIAN LITERATURE
Cross-Reference
Iranian-Indian literary influences on Persian literature will be discussed in a future online entry.