Literature and Languages during Delhi Sultanate
- With the establishment of the Delhi sultanate a new language and literary style was introduced into the sub continent.
- Persian became the official language of Delhi sultanate.
- The development of Persian literature in the sub continent entered a new era in the writings of Amir Khusrau.
- The court chronicles were an important feature of the literature during the period of the Delhi Sultanate
- Ziauddin Barani made the most important contribution to Persian literature during this period. The Tarikh-I Firozshahi and the Fatwa-I Jahandari are his important works.
- Ziauddin Barani was bitter critic of Muhammad bin Tughlaq.
- Minhaj-us-Siraj wrote Tabaqat-iNasari, a general history of Muslim dynasties
up to 1260. - Abu backer’s Chachanamh is the first geographical treatise deals with conquest of sindh
- During this period there were many works that were translated into Persian. The Tuti Nama (book of the parrot) by Zia Nakshabi was the first Persian translation of Sanskrit stories
- A new language Urdu emerged during 14th
- The growth in regional languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Telugu was a very significant development.
