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stretches of its history. The Persian connection was one shining example of India's openness to imbibing diverse global influences, engaging with them organically, and creatively synthesizing them into its ever-evolving identity. Contribution by Jaivardhan Surana

they came into contact with. It was a symbiotic exchange that flowed in both directions across the fertile river-valleys of the subcontinent. This rich intermingling of cultures encapsulates the pluralistic roots and cosmopolitan spirit that defined Indian civilization over long

Persian literary production. However, this was no one-way diffusion process. Just as Persian influences seeped into Indian civilization, the encounter was reciprocal. Persian language, literature, art and traditions were in turn shaped by local Indian vernaculars and contexts

across the Indian subcontinent. Celebrated works of Persian poetry, historical writing and lexicography proliferated not just in the court, but across Muslim and Hindu society. In a paradoxical reversal, Delhi briefly even surpassed the Iranian plateau as the global locus of

universal sovereign. Perhaps the most enduring legacy was linguistic and literary. From the 13th century onwards, following the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, Persian gained immense preeminence as the language of administration, high culture and intellectual discourse

concepts like the idea of justice (nyaaya) as a core tenet of governance were borrowed from Persianate traditions of statecraft. This notion so deeply took root that even Hindu rulers started styling themselves as "sultans" - a concept originating in the Persian idea of a secular

sensibilities of the Achaemenid palaces at Persepolis. Even the very script chosen by Ashoka to inscribe his famous edicts - Kharoshti - derived from the Aramaic writing system used in ancient Persia. The intellectual cross-pollination went further. Foundational political c

The Persian imprint on Indian civilization runs remarkably deep and pervasive across multiple domains. In the realm of architecture and visual arts, the grand Ashokan columns erected throughout the subcontinent were directly inspired by the craftsmanship and aesthetic

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