Medieval History
8 notes tagged Medieval History.
- History
Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Courts
How a mansabdar's zat and sawar ranks worked, why the Akbar Nama reads as court-commissioned ideology, and what Akbar's Maktab Khana actually translated.
- History
Regional Kingdoms of Medieval India
Why Ellora's Kailasa temple belongs to the Rashtrakutas and Khajuraho to the Chandelas, and how the Gurjara-Pratiharas held India's frontier.
- History
Al-Biruni, Ibn Battuta and Bernier on India
Al-Biruni's method, Ibn Battuta's postal and spy system in Delhi, and why historians dispute Bernier's claim that Mughal India had no private property.
- History
Delhi Sultanate: Iqta System and Market Reforms
How the Delhi Sultans ran their empire through the iqta system, Alauddin Khalji's market reforms, and repeated Mongol invasions under the Khaljis and Tughlaqs.
- History
The Pallavas and Palas: Temples and Learning
Mahabalipuram's rock-cut temples predate the Cholas by three centuries, and Vikramashila, not Nalanda, was the Palas' own Buddhist university.
- History
The Chola Empire: Rajaraja to Uttaramerur
Rajaraja I built Thanjavur's Brihadishvara temple, Rajendra I sailed against Srivijaya, and Uttaramerur's inscriptions record real village elections by lot.
- History
Bhakti-Sufi Traditions: Siddhas and Lingayats
Basavanna's Lingayats, Tamil Nayanars and Alvars, Nath Siddhas, and the Chishti and Suhrawardi Sufi orders: caste, devotion and state power in medieval India.
- History
North Indian Bhakti Saints and Chronology
Kabir's disputed guru, Guru Nanak's real dates, Chaitanya and Mirabai: verified facts on north India's Bhakti saints and their true chronology.