A shared heritage, the growth of civilizations in India and Iran

Contributed articles presented at the 62nd session of Indian History Congress, Bhopal on 29-30 December 2001.

Mr Idris Beg did most of the running about. To all three of them many thanks are
due. And, finally, all expressions of gratitude would be inadequate for what we
owe to Mr Rajendra Prasad and Ms Indira Chandrasekhar of Tulika Books. When
they agreed to publish this volume, they could scarcely have imagined being
pressed to carry out the entire work in so extraordinarily short a time. Aligarh
SHIREEN MOOSVI December 2002 Secretary, Aligarh Historians Society
Introduction: A ...