“The government of India has decided to include Farsi as one of the nine classical ... They acknowledged the strength of people-to-people contacts and the deep cultural, literary and linguistic ...

but was historically a more widely understood language in an area ranging from the Middle East to India. Significant populations of speakers in other Persian Gulf countries (Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, ...

he reveals how and why the image of the Persian king played such a prominent role in the political history of Islamicate societies, in general, and in India, in particular. By tracing the historical ...