Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Tables xv
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Note on Translations and Scholarly Conventions xxi
7. Select Time Line of Political Events, ca. 1190– 1720 xxiii
8. Introduction Controversial History 1
9. CHAPTER I Before Indo- Persian Rule Many Sanskrit Ways to Write About Muslims 27
10. CHAPTER II Difference That Mattered Defining the Ghurid Threat 44
11. CHAPTER III Indo- Muslim Rulers Expanding the World of Indian Kingship 66
12. CHAPTER IV Local Stories in Fourteenth- Century Gujarat and Fifteenth- Century Kashmir 99
13. CHAPTER V Meeting the Mughals and Reformulating Jain Identity 133
14. CHAPTER VI Rajput and Maratha Kingships in an Indo- Persian Political Order 161
15. CHAPTER VII Mughal Political Histories 189
16. Epilogue Starting Points 212
17. APPENDIX Select Translations from Sanskrit Histories 223
18. Glossary 245
19. Notes 251
20. Bibliography 305
21. Index 333