Medieval age was the age of syncretic intermixing and fusion o | Mains

Medieval age was the age of syncretic intermixing and fusion of culture, religion, music and way of life of persian rulers and native India.

The Persian rulers also got the literary sources of native India like Upanishads translated into Persian to better understand the religion,beliefs, values and customs of the native Indians. The literature of the period reflected the history, philosophy, and polity of medieval India.


Some of the important literary sources of the period are:

1. Tareeq-i-firoz-shahi written by Ziyadduin Barani preserved the history of Delhi Sultanate containing the various administrative work and order assigned to the officials and designations granted to them.

2. Ain-e-Akbari by Abul Fazl reflected the administrative and statistical records of Akbar‟s rule.

3. The works of Amir Khusro are well known for the representation of the period with a philosophical prism.

4. Rumi‟s works reflected upon the divinity in Human Beings.

5. Ganga Jamuni tehzeeb emerged during this period which is a well known and age long preserved way of life which is a fusion of persian and Indian philosophy.

6. Travellers such as Ibn Battuta and Al Beruni who wrote Rihlah and Kitab ul Hind respectively represented in detail the society, economy and polity of the state of that time.

7. Dara Sheikh got many Sanskrit books translated into Persian. A compendium of 50 upanishads were translated into Persian by the name sir-i-akbar.


Medieval age was the beginning of a new era, a new society whose foundation was laid upon the fusion between the Persian and Indian way of life which popularly came to be known as Ganga Yamuna tehzeeb.