Between Sainthood and Sovereignty: The Political Imagination of Afghan India

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Yashasvi Verma

Afghan India; Kingship; Sovereignty; Political Legitimacy; Perso-Indian Statecraft; Justice; Sacred Authority; Sher Shah Sur.

“The rise of the Afghans to power in 1451, resuscitated the Sultanate and the political revival was soon followed by a more significant one in the domain of culture” . In the context of evolving Perso-Indian Statecraft we notice a shift in the 13th and 14th centuries, as the theory of dual power was getting modified. The fundamental distinction between the political order and the sharai order did not disappear but was accommodated within the framework of the ideal type that I will call ‘Islamic royalism’ . According to Islamic royalism, the ruler maintained both the political and the sharai order and was therefore the Shadow of God on earth and the ‘Padshah of Islam’. As described by Mushtaqui, the Afghan Period was characterized by great literary activities; many writers produced works of fiction and legends, such as Padmavat and Madumalti . Works were produced not only on literature, theology, history and lexicography, but also on such subjects as music, dancing and medicine, research on astronomy was also greatly encouraged. Sikandar Shah marked the apex of literary splendour and the cultural achievements of his time were unrivalled for centuries past. The general atmosphere of peace in which he ascended the throne did, no doubt, foster the cultivation of letters, but it was chiefly his own love of learning and the patronage which he and his nobles extended to the learned that encouraged the scholars to flock to his court. Contrary to this representation of the Afghans as the dangerous ‘other’, a large corpus of writings in the Persian language, some of them composed by the beleaguered Afghans themselves, celebrated the good old days under the Afghan rulers. The period of the Lodi and Sur sovereigns was clubbed together and perceived as one long tradition, fractured by the advent of the Mughals. The Afghan rulers drew on the ideals and institutions of medieval Indo-Persian tradition of governance, which were evolved over centuries of interaction between the classical Islamic norms on the one hand, and those of the Persians on the other. In this essay, we will be tracing the evolution of Indo-Persian ideas of statecraft through the study of the Afghan period rule in India.

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Yashasvi Verma (June-2026). Between Sainthood and Sovereignty: The Political Imagination of Afghan India. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 11(6), d562-d569. https://doi.org/10.56975/ijnrd.v11i6.326537

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