TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flatt,Emma J.
TI  - The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
SN  - 9781108741644
U1  - 954.80245 F45C 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University of Press
KW  - Sultans
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Social networks
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Cosmopolitanism, courtliness and ethics in the Deccani sultanates -- Courtly disposition -- Networks, patrons and friends -- Courts, merchants and commodities -- Scribal skills -- Esoteric skills -- Martial skills
N2  - "The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources, and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of striking ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity. People used multi-faceted trans-regional networks--mercantile, kinship, friendship and intellectual--to move across the Persian-speaking world and to find employment at the Deccan courts"--
ER  -