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Persian Studies Under the Sultans of Bengal, 1204-1576 A.D.
Book details
  • xvi+268p., Illustrations Black and White; 1 Map Black and White; 22cm.
  • Hardcover
  • English language
  • The Asiatic Society
  • 31.03.2017
  • ISBN 13: 9789381574614

Persian Studies Under the Sultans of Bengal, 1204-1576 A.D. (Monograph Series #LXIV)

Synopsis

The present work under the title "Persian Studies under the Sultans of Bengal", a maiden work on thid topic, covers a wide range of dicussion on various episodes relating to the efforescence of Persian language and liteature in medieval Bengal. It encapsulates multifacetes activities of the Sultans and governmors, nobles and princes,officers and lamdlords, poets and writers, Sufis and savabts who either visited or settled in this part of the globe and made significant contribution to the promotion of Persian. It focuses on the hitherto uncharted field of study and adds a brilliant chapter to the history and culture of Bengal.

After rummaging various sources such as anthropology, geography, hagiography, numismatics, historiography, Sufi literature etc. the author portrays a graphic picture of the socio-culturallife the people shedding extensivw light on the progress and development of Persian, which relgned supreme as the offcial language of the court under the Sultans of Bengal. The book would cater to the need of research scholars interested in the socio-cultural life of medieval Bengal.

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Gholam Sarwar

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