Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800 /Muzaffar Alam
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TextPublisher number: :Saras Books | :2/31, Ansari Road Darya Ganj Delhi 110002Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521129558Subject(s): History | Geography & travel | Geography of & travel in Asia | Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Asia, CentralDDC classification: 915.40425 ALA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
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