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6 pages in length. When one examines India's historical perspective, it is often with significant consideration that the Sultanate period is credited with perpetuating change that had already begun to take place. Expanding agriculture, widespread commercial systems, slow but sure changes based upon growing technological advancements, as well as political and religious growth all played an integral role in the impact left by the Turkish/Afghan regime. According to Barbara and Thomas Metcalf, authors of A Concise History of India, these changes could not have taken place had India been what many thought to be a "stagnant society" (Metcalf et al 3), but rather could only have occurred in an ever-growing, ever-progressive civilization. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Sultanate period is credited with perpetuating change that had already begun to take place. Expanding agriculture, widespread commercial systems, slow but sure changes based upon growing technological advancements, as
well as political and religious growth all played an integral role in the impact left by the Turkish/Afghan regime. According to Barbara and Thomas Metcalf, authors of A Concise
History of India, these changes could not have taken place had India been what many thought to be a "stagnant society" (Metcalf et al 3), but rather could only have
occurred in an ever-growing, ever-progressive civilization. "Despite the emergence of political divisions and distinctive vernacular cultures, the first three centuries of Muslim rule fostered long-enduring changes in trading networks,
social life, and religious institutions, as well as political strategies, that made for continuity across a broad geographical area. The fifteenth and early sixteenth century in northern India foreshadowed
in some ways the regional kingdoms that succeeded the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth century. Both were periods characterized by widespread similarities and connections, despite political divisions, as well
as by creative cultural expression in local, vernacular contexts" (Metcalf et al 13). Overtaken by Turkish and Afghan regimes, which came to be known as the Delhi Sultanate, early
India succumbed to the "invaders" (Metcalf et al 4) whose original objective was to bolster military victory as a means by which to "secure access to the agriculture surplus of
the countryside" (Metcalf et al 4). Beyond this quest fortified by military prowess, the sultans did not have any particular connection to religious belief, nor were they considered especially
sacred when it came to establishing their authority; rather, their strong point resided within the notions of "military and governing skills" (Metcalf et al 4). Still, it was rudimentarily
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