Culture | Syncretism
How Persian and Sanskrit cultures blended to create modern India
Books by Richard Eaton and Audrey Truschke offer a corrective to Hindu nationalists’ narrow version of history
India in the Persianate Age: 1000–1765. By Richard Eaton. University of California Press; 512 pages; $39.95. Penguin; £12.99
The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule. By Audrey Truschke. Columbia University Press; 376 pages; $140 and £108
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