Cynthia Talbot

TL;DR: The nature of medieval Hindu-Muslim relations is an issue of great relevance in contemporary India as mentioned in this paper, and an upsurge of Hindu nationalism over the past decade has led to demands that the state rectify past wrongs on behalf of India's majority religion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the expansion of Turkish power, 1180-1350, Southern India in the age of Vijayanagara, 1350-1550, and Sixteenth-century north India: empire reformulated 6. Expanding political and economic spheres, 1550-1650 7. Elite cultures in seventeenth-century South Asia 8. Challenging central authority, 1650-1750 9.

TL;DR: Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot as mentioned in this paper reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities.

TL;DR: The Kyamkhanis were a small Indian Muslim community who flourished in northern Rajasthan from c. 1450 to 1730 as discussed by the authors, and their history was written in a local literary language, Braj Bhasa, rather than in the more cosmopolitan Persian that was widely used by Muslim elites.

TL;DR: The common model of the Hindu temple of South India has stressed its significance as the main integrative factor binding the disparate elements of precolonial society into one social fabric as mentioned in this paper.