Sanskrit as the language of history with Dr. Audrey Truschke of Rutgers University

Today, we have with us noted historian SuShri Audrey Truschke.
We will discuss Audrey Truscke's book ‘The Language Of History: Sanskrit Narratives Of A Muslim Past.’

The Language of History analyses a hitherto overlooked group of histories on Indo-Muslim or Indo-Persian political events, namely a few dozen Sanskrit texts from the 1190s until 1721. As soon as Muslim political figures established themselves in northern India in the 1190s-when, the Ghurids overthrew the Chauhan kingdom and ruled part of northern India from Delhi-Indian intellectuals who wrote about that political development in Sanskrit. Indian Sanskrit scholars produced dozens of Sanskrit texts on Muslim-initiated political events. These works span Delhi Sultanate and Mughal rule, including texts that deal with Deccan sultanates and Muslim-led polities in the subcontinent's deep south. India's premodern learned elite only ceased to write on Indo-Muslim political power in Sanskrit when the Mughal Empire began to fracture beyond repair in the early eighteenth century.

For the first time, this book seeks to collect, analyze, and theorize Sanskrit histories of Muslim-led and, later, as Muslims became an integral part of Indian cultural and political worlds, Indo-Muslim rule as a body of historical materials. This archive lends insight into formulations and expressions of premodern political, social, cultural, and religious identities.
Audrey Truschke is a historian, author, and activist. She is an associate professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of two award-winning books: Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court and Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth. Her next book is a sweeping history of India from the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century.

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