Indian Traders in Persia in the Seventeenth Century

In the thirteenth century aer the establishment of the TurkoAfghan rule, north India’s contacts with Iran had undergone a qualitative change as the new rulers, who were ethnically and linguistically Turks, adopted Persian as the language of administration, diplomacy and culture. e study and spread of Persian in India helped to bridge linguistic and cultural gulf between the populace of the two countries. e Mughal rulers developed contacts with Iran on this cultural base as well.