Ibn Batuta

Essays

The Exquisite Gauda Desha of Dhundiraja

The Exquisite Gauda Desha of Dhundiraja

A detailed picture of the Bengal that the 17th Century Sanskrit Scholar Dhundiraja saw and described in his Sanskrit work, Girvanapadamanjari

The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World

The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World

The first part of a series narrating the prosperous economic empire of Bengal roughly from the 14th up to the 18th Century

The Qualifications of a Medieval Muslim Chronicler and the Nature of Muslim Histories

The Qualifications of a Medieval Muslim Chronicler and the Nature of Muslim Histories

An examination of the centrality of linear history in Islam and the qualifications that a medieval Muslim chronicler possessed