This interdisciplinary volume addresses the history, literature and material culture of peoples of Turkish origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth cent

India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan, and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over

Part 1. Turkish Oorigins, identity and history in India -- Part 2. Art, material culture, literature and transregional connections.

Presentations of National Cultures. Fifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in the east-European region. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from

Presents a comparative study of two major attempts to build secular states - India and Turkey - in the non-Western world