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Indo-Persian

The composite courtly culture, fusing Persian and Indian elements in language, painting, music, and architecture, that flowered under the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.

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  • Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History

    And out of the wider meeting came a whole composite Indo-Persian world — a language that grew into Hindavi and then Urdu, the qawwali sung at the dargahs, a cuisine, a music, an architecture — though this share…

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