MEDIEVAL INDIA
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loginThe Historical Dictionary of Medieval Indiadeals with a crucial form-ative period of what is already one of the world’s biggest countries and,over recent decades, one that has added economic, political, and socialclout to its size and numbers. So it is important to know India’s history,and this not only for Indians and others on the subcontinent but for allof us. Admittedly, this volume deals with an early period, namely androughly the period between 1000 and 1526; however, this book is notjust to inform us about what happened so many centuries ago but alsoto remind us of old sores that have not yet healed and old problems thatwill not readily go away. Indeed, more broadly, it helps us to put intocontext what some feel will be the greatest quandary—and also con-flict—of the 21st century: the reputed “clash of civilizations.” What ishappening today is not even as jarring as the clashes that took place inmedieval India, not so much among Indians (who did not exist yet) butamong the many earlier kingdoms and states that would merge into In-dia, and even more decisiv
