A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the I'jāz-i arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of...
A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the I'jāz-i arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of...
A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the I'jāz-i arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier / translated and with an introduction by Muzaffar Alam and Seema Alavi.
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New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001.
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N954.029/12
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English
Persian
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Physical content
xiii, 422 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 22 cm.
Contents
Polier and His Works -- I'jaz-i Arsalani -- Persian Insha and the style of I'jaz-i Arsalani -- Eighteenth-Century India's Encounter With the West -- English Company's Continental Underbelly -- Colonial Identities in the Eighteenth Century: English or French -- Shopping in the Oriental Bazaar -- The...
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Publisher
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001.
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England
Date Published
c2001.
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Summary
"The complex network of cultural interaction between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth century generated a range of literature in both European as well as Indian languages, including Persian, which had long been the language of the political and cultural elite of India. While some of the European texts have been linked to larger issues of kno...
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A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the I'jāz-i arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier / translated and with an introduction by Muzaffar Alam and Seema Alavi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2001.
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N954.029/12
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74VvxKzV4elg
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019564980X
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991016700259702626
