About the Book: The Age of Wrath: A History Of The Delhi Sultanate
Definitive and engrossing history of the Delhi Sultanate period
The Delhi Sultanate period (1206-1526) is commonly portrayed as an age of chaos
and violence-of plundering kings, turbulent dynasties, and the aggressive
imposition of Islam on India. But it was also the era that saw the creation of a
pan-Indian empire, on the foundations of which the Mughals and the British later
built their own Indian empires.
The encounter between Islam and Hinduism also transformed, among other things,
Indias architecture, literature, music and food. Abraham Eraly brings this
fascinating period