History of research on Indian Style in Iran and the world (From 1300 to 1350 A. H.)

Despite its significance and profound impact on the history of the literature of Iran and the Subcontinent, the Indian style has been ignored and has not been studied. The authors believe that there are three reasons for such negligence: 1. The profound impact of the memoirs of Ātaškade-ye Ādar and Majmacol-fosahā by Reżā Xān-e Hedāyat, as the last comprehensive memoirs of the Persian language and their influence on the manner of thinking of contemporary thinkers; 2. The great interest of contemporary men of letters and researchers in the eloquence and firmness of words in the poems composed in Xorāsānī and cArāqī styles and judging the poetry in Indian style on this basis, and as a consequence, finding frequent grammatical errors and lack of eloquence in them and ignoring all of them; 3. Disparity of the published and accomplished works and researches has resulted in the lack of presentation of a comprehensive and exact portrait of the composed poems in Indian style. This article aims at elaborating on the accomplished research on this style and its poets in Iran and other parts of the world in the first half of the 4th century A. H.. The concluding part of the article gives an overall image of the research in that period and provides answers to a few questions.