Literary source used in mediviel period
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What are the literary sources of history for the medieval period of India?
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Medieval Indian history roughly refers to the period from the fall of the Imperial Gurjara-Pratiharas to the establishment of the Company rule in the subah of Bengal . Thus this period has some definite if somewhat arbitrary subdivisons which are :
The last years of the glorious Hindu rule and its decimation at the hands of the incoming Imperial Mussalmans
The establishment of the Muslim rule in the subcontinent which in turn can be subdivided into the establishment and expansion of the Delhi Sultanate , the rise of the Mughal empire and the Hindu resistance to the same
The period of the Latter Mughals , the rise of the provincial governors and the Martha Supremacy
The closing stages would see the beginning of the expansion of the company rule in India.
Our sources for this period include :
Edicts ,temples and land grants, commentaries on the Dharmashastras , coins , latter Puranas such as the Bhavishya Puranas
the records left by the Muslim historians who accomapnied the likes of Mahmud of Ghazni such as his secretary al-Utbi’s memoirs
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