{"id":42251,"date":"2011-07-03T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2011-07-03T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T20:41:35","slug":"pathan-parahistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/03\/pathan-parahistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathan parahistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/turkdomain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12648\" title=\"turkdomain\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/turkdomain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcapleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/AkbarM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12649\" title=\"AkbarM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/07\/AkbarM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMughal Emperor Akbar<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0521530369\/geneexpressio-20\">Strange Parallels<\/a> Victor Lieberman made a reference to &#8220;Turkicized Pathans.&#8221; The very term has been gnawing at me. To get some sense of the context, Lieberman was sketching out the impact of Islamic civilization upon Indian civilization. Sometimes this &#8220;impact&#8221; was very literal. The Arab armies had rolled into Sindh in the 8th century, but that influence upon India was militarily marginal. The first real Muslim raider of consequence was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahmud_of_Ghazni\">Mahmud of Ghazni<\/a>, a Turkic raider from what is today Afghanistan, who famously plundered the palaces and temples of North India circa ~1000. But even here the the impact is arguably superficial. Mahmud of Ghazni&#8217;s raids did not lead to a large Indian domain under his direct rule except in Punjab. Rather, these sallies into India were sources of supplementation to his broader fiscal resources. He was still fundamentally a Central Asian potentate fixated on Central Asian concerns. The real rise of Islamic civilization in India was precipitated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delhi_Sultanate\">Delhi Sultanate<\/a>, a series of short-lived polities beginning circa ~1200 which dominated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mughal Emperor Akbar<br \/>\nIn Strange Parallels Victor Lieberman made a reference to &#8220;Turkicized Pathans.&#8221; The very term has been gnawing at me. To get some sense of the context, Lieberman was sketching out the impact of Islamic civilization u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,19,1574,1018,681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genomics","category-history","category-pathans","category-south-asian-genomics","category-turks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42431,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42251\/revisions\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}