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The article seeks to evaluate the importance of the rich and progressive common cultural heritage of Iran and MusHm India and its role in the creation of a great bulk of Persian literature in the South Asian subcontinent over a
long period of time. It also emphasizes the need for paying more attention to this heritage in order to ensure continuity and expansion of Iranian literature and art as well as ethics and spiritualism (which pervade the whole range of the Iranian literature and art) and which in recent times has unfortunately been perpetually on the decline in most parts of its traditional homelands outside the present boundaries of the Islamic Republic. By highlighting numerous manifestations of the post-Islamic Iranian art and culture in Muslim India, the article underscores the importanee of the role played by the unprecedented liberal patronage of the Mughul emperors and nobles in their efflorecsence throughout the South Asian subcontinent. By unravelling various aspects of Iranian art and culture as they developed


in Muslim India the article sheds valuable light on a variety of spiritual, scholarly, intellectual, historical and cultural links that bind together the peoples of the Indian subcontinent with their brethren in Iran.