India and Iran in the longue duree / edited by Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daryaee, Touraj, editor.

Patel, Alka, editor.

Series:

Ancient Iran series ; Volume 3.

Ancient Iran Series ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iran--History--To 640.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, [2017]

Summary:

This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period. The papers include historical, archeological and artistic aspects and influences between the two civiluzations. This volume was previously published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California - Irvine.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee

India and Iran in the Longue Durée / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee

Achaemenids and Mauryans: Emergence of Coins and Plastic Arts in India / Osmund Bopearachchi

Nested Histories: Alexander in Iran and India / Grant Parker

The White Elephant: Notions of Kingship and Zoroastrian Demonology / Authors: Touraj Daryaee and Soodabeh Malekzadeh

In Search of Missing Links: Iranian Royal Protocol From the Achaemenids to the Mughals / Frantz Grenet

The Shaykh and the Shah: On the Five Jewels / Ali Anooshahr

Historian as Witness: Ghulam Husain Tabatabai and the Dawning of British Rule in India / Sudipta Sen

Parsi Textual Philanthropy: Print Commerce and the Revival of Zoroastrianism in Early 20th-Century Iran / Afshin Marashi

Text as Nationalist Object: Modern Persian-Language Historiography on the Ghurids (C. 1150-1215) / Alka Patel

Contributors / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46063-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004460638 DOI