Towards a connected history of equine cultures in South Asia - bahrī (sea) horses and ‘horsemania’ in thirteenth century South India

摘要

This article explores ways that the concept of equine cultures, developed\udthus far principally in European and/or early modern and colonial contexts,\udmight translate to premodern South Asia. As a first contribution to a history of\udequine matters in South Asia, it focuses on the maritime circulation of horses from\udthe Middle East to Peninsular India in the thirteenth century, examining the different\udways that this phenomenon is recorded in textual and material sources and\udexploring their potential for writing a new, more connected history of South Asia\udand the Indian Ocean world.