The Age Of Wrath: A History Of The Delhi Sultanate - Plot & Excerpts
‘The very contrasts which existed between them, the wide divergences in their culture and their religions, make the history of their impact peculiarly instructive …’ Such civilisational confrontations have indeed been very rare in world history. But what is even more curious is that though Hindu and Muslim civilisations coexisted in India for very many centuries, there was hardly any creative interaction between them, no significant change in either, in response to the challenge by the other. The two coexisted, but did not interact. They were like water and oil in the same pot. The entire early medieval period in India was culturally quite barren, in sharp contrast to the lush cultural efflorescence of the preceding classical period or the succeeding Mughal period. Except for the patronage of Indian culture by a few provincial sultans, the explorations into Indian heritage by a couple of Persian scholars and writers like al-Biruni and Amir Khusrav, the conservation of some ancient Indian monuments by a few sultans like Firuz Tughluq, and the construction of a few grand monuments like Qutb Minar, there was nothing notably positive in the cultural history of the Delhi Sultanate and its provincial offshoots.
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