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Sarai in the Fra Mauro map. "Old Sarai" (سرای باتو, Sarāy-i Bātū; or سرای برکه, Sarāy-i Barka) was established by the Mongol ruler Batu Khan (1227-1255), as indicated by both occasional references to the "Sarai of Batu" ("Sarai Batu", Sarāy-i Bātū) [4] and an explicit statement of the Franciscan William of Rubruck, who visited Batu in 1253 or 1254, on his way to the ...
Sarai, a common name of Shorea robusta, a tree native to the Indian subcontinent; The Sarai Programme at CSDS (the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an Indian research institute for the social sciences and humanities in Delhi) Sarai Records, an independent label founded by Teena Marie
The Mughal Sarai was a caravanserai built in 1644 CE during the Mughal rule. The clock tower was added in 1844 by the British. Surat was founded in the late medieval period, and gradually became an important port in the Mughal Empire, though the earliest human presence may go as early as 300 BCE.
Despite the name of the structure, Akbari Sarai was begun during the reign of Islam Shah Suri in the mid 1550s, and not during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. [3] The mosque at the sarai dates from the Suri period, though the cells which line the complex, and its gateways, [2] date from the Shah Jahan period in the mid 1600s.
Medieval India was a long period of post-classical history in the Indian subcontinent between the ancient and modern periods. It is usually regarded as running approximately from the break-up of the Gupta Empire in the 6th century to the start of the early modern period in 1526 with the start of the Mughal Empire , although some historians ...
The Sultan of Delhi was the absolute monarch of the Delhi Sultanate which stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent during the period of medieval era, for 320 years (1206–1526).
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
Ribat of Zein-o-din, a former caravanserai near Yazd, Iran. A caravanserai was a roadside inn where caravans and travelers could rest overnight.. They are typically constructed around a central courtyard, can be used as markets and are found from North Africa and the Aegean to India and Western China-although the majority are found between Iran and Turkey.