Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-469) and index.

Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Plates and Figures
1. Introduction by Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh
STATES, SUBJECTS, AND NETWORKS
2. After Timur Left: North India in the
Fifteenth Century by Simon Digby
3. Bandagi and Naukari : Studying Transitions in
Political Culture and Service under the North
Indian Sultanates, Thirteenth-Sixteenth
Centuries by Sunil Kumar
PUBLIC LANGUAGES
4. The Rise of Written Vernaculars:
The Deccan 1450-1650 by Richard M. Eaton
5. Turki and Hindavi in the World of Persian:
Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century
Dictionaries by Dilorom Karomat
6. Local Lexis? Provincializing Persian in
Fifteenth-Century North India by Stefano Pello
7. Languages of Public Piety: Bilingual Inscriptions from
Sultanate Gujarat, c. 1390-1538 by Samira Sheikh
TELLINGS OF KINGS, SUFIS, AND WARRIORS
8. Universal Poet, Local Kings: Sanskrit, the
Rhetoric of Kingship, and Local Kingdoms in
Gujarat by Aparna Kapadia
9. Warrior-Tales at Hinterland Courts in North India,
c. 1370-1550 by Ramya Sreenivasan 242
10. Emotion and Meaning in Mirigavati : Strategies
of Spiritual Signification in Hindavi Sufi
Romances by Aditya Behl
CULTURAL SPACES AND LITERARY TRANSACTIONS
11. The Art of the Book in India under the
Sultanates by Éloise Brac de la Perriere
12. Apabhramsha as a Literary Medium in
Fifteenth-Century North India by Eva De Clercq
13. Early Hindi Epic Poetry in Gwalior:
Beginnings and Continuities in the Ramayan
of Vishnudas by Imre Bangha
14. Traces of a Multilingual World: Hindavi in
Persian Texts by Francesca Orsini
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index

Papers presented at the Conference 'After Timur Came: Multiple Spaces of Cultural Production and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India' held at London during 29-31 May, 2007.