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Indo-Persian culture flourished in North India during the period of the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526). The invasion of Babur in 1526, the end of the Delhi Sultanate and the establishment of what would become the Mughal Empire would usher the golden age of Indo-Persian culture with particular reference to the art and architecture of the Mughal era.
Despite the introduction of later Vedic and Zoroastrian scriptures, Indo-Iranians shared a common inheritance of concepts including the universal force *Hṛta-(Sanskrit rta, Avestan asha), the sacred plant and drink *sawHma-(Sanskrit Soma, Avestan Haoma) and gods of social order such as *mitra-(Sanskrit Mitra, Avestan and Old Persian Mithra ...
The Sintashta culture, also known as the Sintashta–Petrovka culture [44] or Sintashta–Arkaim culture, [45] is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the northern Eurasian steppe on the borders of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, dated to the period 2100–1800 BC. [46]
Persian people were one of the major ethnic groups, who accompanied the ethnic Turco-Mongol ruling elite of the Mughal Empire after its invasion of the Indian subcontinent. . Throughout the Mughal Empire, a number of ethnic Persian technocrats, bureaucrats, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, poets, artists, theologians and Sufis migrated and settled in different parts of the Indian ...
Proto-Indo-Iranian reconstruction Meaning Indo-Aryan Iranian Etymology Notes *daywás [37] god, deity Skt devá [37] OAv. daēuua [37] From PIE *deywós 'celestial > god'. [37] The Iranian word is at the origin of the div, a creature of Persian mythology, later spread to Turkic and Islamic mythologies. [38] *daywiH [39] goddess Skt devī́ [39 ...
The ethnonym Alān is a dialectal variant of the Old Iranian *Aryāna, itself derived from the root arya-, meaning 'Aryan', the common self-designation of Indo-Iranian peoples. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 1 ] It probably came in use in the early history of the Alans for the purpose of uniting a heterogeneous group of tribes through the invocation of a ...
From the Sintashta culture the Indo-Iranian followed the migrations of the Indo-Iranians to Anatolia, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontintinent. [42] [43] From the 9th century BCE onward, Iranian languages also migrated westward with the Scythians back to the Pontic steppe where the proto-Indo-Europeans came from. [43]
The Proto-Indo-Iranian language and culture probably emerged within the Sintashta culture (c. 2100 –1800 BCE), at the eastern border of the Abashevo culture, which in turn developed from the Corded Ware-related Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture.