[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) # Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) Court and nobility, the state, classes, economic conditions, household and family, food, dress, amusements, festivals, religion; from Persian and Hindi sources. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [K. M. Ashraf](https://indike.org/pramana/person/ashraf-km) - **Extent:** 1,629 passages, 125,343 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · 2nd ed., Delhi: Jiwan Prakashan 1959 (first in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Letters 1, 1935);… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (K. M. Ashraf †1962) ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c1) — 10 parts - [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c2) — 3 parts - [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c3) — 1 part - [c4 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4) — 2 parts - [c5 Part I: Political Condition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c5) — 4 parts - [c6 Part II: Economic Condition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6) — 3 parts - [c7 Part III: Social Condition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c7) — 5 parts - [c8 Appendix A. Some General Data](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8) — 50 parts - [c9 Appendix B. The Chronology of the Sultans of Delhi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c9) — 5 parts - [c10 Appendix C. Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c10) — 54 parts - [c11 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c11) — 60 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935) · Pramāṇa