India and Iran in the longue durée / / edited by Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910511649803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 90-04-46063-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Ancient Iran Series ; ; Volume 3
• Disciplina: 935.05
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Iran History To 640
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee -- India and Iran in the Longue Durée / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee -- Achaemenids and Mauryans: Emergence of Coins and Plastic Arts in India / Osmund Bopearachchi -- Nested Histories: Alexander in Iran and India / Grant Parker -- The White Elephant: Notions of Kingship and Zoroastrian Demonology / Authors: Touraj Daryaee and Soodabeh Malekzadeh -- In Search of Missing Links: Iranian Royal Protocol From the Achaemenids to the Mughals / Frantz Grenet -- The Shaykh and the Shah: On the Five Jewels / Ali Anooshahr -- Historian as Witness: Ghulam Husain Tabatabai and the Dawning of British Rule in India / Sudipta Sen -- Parsi Textual Philanthropy: Print Commerce and the Revival of Zoroastrianism in Early 20th-Century Iran / Afshin Marashi -- Text as Nationalist Object: Modern Persian-Language Historiography on the Ghurids (C. 1150-1215) / Alka Patel -- Contributors / Authors: Alka Patel and Touraj Daryaee.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period. The papers include historical, archeological and artistic aspects and influences between the two civiluzations. This volume was previously published by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, University of California - Irvine.