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  Index

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  Abdul Qadir Badauni

  Abdul Wahid Bilgrami (see Haqaiq-i Hindi)

  Abul Fazl

  aesthetics (see also perspective/s)

  Afghan

  Akbar

  Alam, Muzaffar

  Alauddin Khalji

  in history

  in narratives

  Alaol

  Ali, Daud

  alliances

  marriage

  political

  Subsidiary

  Amir Khusrau

  Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (see also Tod)

  appropriations of

  antiquarian

  antiquity

  Aquil, Raziuddin

  Arakan

  archeologists

  audiences

  courtly

  and the drama

  and genre

  of initiates

  Jain

  multiple

  for narratives

  for oral traditions

  and print

  target

  Aurangzeb

  Avadh

  Avadhi

  Balzani, Marzia

  Banarasidas

  Bandopadhyay, Rangalal

  Bandopadhyay, Yajneshwar

  bat/batan

  Bayly, C.A.

  Bayly, Susan

  Behl, Aditya

  Bengal (see also bhadralok)

  Muslims in

  Persian in

  Bengali

  and Sanskrit

  bhadralok

  and Aryan past

  class contours of

  and gender

  and goddess worship

  and literary canons

  and nationalism

  and Rajput traditions

  anti-Muslim sentiment among

  reform of language