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INDIA

i. Introduction

ii. Historical Geography: the ancient frontier with Iran

iii. Political and Cultural Relations: Achaemenid period

iv. Political and Cultural Relations: Seleucid, Parthian, Sasanian periods

v. Political and Cultural Relations: medieval period to the 13th century

vi. Political and Cultural Relations: from the 13th to the 18th centuries

vii. Political and Cultural Relations: the Afsharid and Zand periods

viii. Political and cultural relations: Qajar period, the 19th century

ix. Political and cultural relations: Qajar period, early 20th century

x. Political and cultural relations: Pahlavi period. See Supplement.

xi. Political and cultural relations: Islamic Republic. See Supplement.

xii. Islamic dynasties of India. See under individual dynasties

xiii. Indo-Iranian commercial relations

xiv. Persian literature in India.

xv. Persian correspondence literature in India. See CORRESPONDENCE iv. On the Subcontinent of India

xvi. Indo-Persian historiography.

xvii. Persian press in India. See viii. and ix. above; CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION vi.; Ḥabl al-matin. See also Supplement.

xviii. Persian elements in Indian languages.

xix. Indian literary influences on Persian literature. See Supplement.

xx. Persian influences on Indian painting.

xxi. Indian influences on Persian painting.

xxii. Persian influence on Indian architecture. See DECCAN ii.; DELHI SULTANATE ii; GARDEN iii; HYDERABAD ii.

xxiii. Indian influence on Persian cinema. See x. above.

xxiv. Persian calligraphy in India. See Supplement.

xxv. Mutual mystical influences. See under SUFISM.

xxvi. Mutual musical influences. See under MUSIC.

xxvii. Mutual scientific influences. See under SCIENCE.

xxviii. Iranian immigrants in India.

xxix. Shiʿites in India. See CONVERSION iii.; see also under SHIʿISM.

xxx. Indian merchants in Central Asia and Iran.

xxxi. Indian merchants in 19th-century Afghanistan.

xxxii. Parsees of India. See under PARSI COMMUNITIES.

xxxiii. Indo-Muslim physicians.