HASTAC Commons | Sunil Sharma | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/sunilsharma/activity/ Activity feed for Sunil Sharma. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:32:29 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a0179457ecefafb9f7b8f68c332fef1f Sunil Sharma deposited The Production of Mughal Shahnamas in the group Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636098/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:25:28 +0000 This paper studies the interest of the early Mughals in the Shahnameh and survey the range of illustrated manuscripts of this text produced in North India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although there were several older copies of the Shahnameh in the imperial library, and the emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) is said to have enjoyed…[Read more]

]]> 0 462e137a5ad180dce15ebd2ceb038ed5 Sunil Sharma deposited The Production of Mughal Shahnamas https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636005/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:12:32 +0000 This paper studies the interest of the early Mughals in the Shahnameh and survey the range of illustrated manuscripts of this text produced in North India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although there were several older copies of the Shahnameh in the imperial library, and the emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) is said to have enjoyed…[Read more]

]]> 0 a080a22e3240d209566103ef0b401e30 Sunil Sharma deposited 'The Spring of Hindustan': Love and War in the Monsoon in Indo-Persian Poetry in the group Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630429/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:25:21 +0000 A study of the imagery of the monsoon season in the poetry of the classical poets Masud Sad Salman and Amir Khusrau.

]]> 0 d3610f1a26df52b40cdd4c32fed5cb7e Sunil Sharma deposited The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and His Travels in Persianate Lands in the group Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630428/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 16:25:21 +0000 A close reading of parts of Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s travel account in English to Central Asia and Iran as a Persianate text.

]]> 0 11472af72260ce5eeaf36f21583ecd56 Sunil Sharma deposited 'The Spring of Hindustan': Love and War in the Monsoon in Indo-Persian Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630425/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:34:22 +0000 A study of the imagery of the monsoon season in the poetry of the classical poets Masud Sad Salman and Amir Khusrau.

]]> 0 34da2c1987f131fd3db905d22d4a9542 Sunil Sharma deposited The Chameleonic Identities of Mohan Lal Kashmiri and His Travels in Persianate Lands https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630424/ Sun, 27 Jan 2019 13:26:39 +0000 A close reading of parts of Mohan Lal Kashmiri’s travel account in English to Central Asia and Iran as a Persianate text.

]]> 0 18140e6ba12b190aa811d8080d014e4c Sunil Sharma created the group Persian and Persianate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628681/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:31:49 +0000 0 af5e9a8f984bb12e23c4119510a829d2 Sunil Sharma deposited Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas'ud Sa'd Salman of Lahore https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1628679/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:25:36 +0000 One of the earliest Persian poets in India, Masud Sad (d. 1121) was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, while his ancestral roots were in Hamadan, Iran. Most of his professional career was spent as a court poet in Lahore and Ghazna (in present-day Afghanistan). His true talent was brought out when he spent eighteen years in India, in prison and…[Read more]

]]> 0 71a1cd3661f94100f5fa6379aa8c17d9 Sunil Sharma's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1626194/ Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:30:17 +0000 0