Daud Ali

Research interests:

• Pre-Mughal South Asia
• Medieval South Asia
• History of mentalities and practices in pre-Sultanate South Asia
• Courtly and monastic discipline
• Mercantile practices
• Conventions in erotic poetry and courtship
• Slavery
• Ideas of space
• Time and history in inscriptions
• Early Southeast Asian history
• Gardens and landscape in the medieval Deccan.

Future and ongoing projects include collaborative projects on:

• The history of friendship in early and medeival South Asia
• A translation of a Buddhist text on erotics
• A study of the production of the king Bhoja cycles in Western India.