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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;113061 _d;22/12/2018
028			_a:Variety Books Publishers & Distributors _b:B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092 _c:IM2614 _d:22/11/2019
082			_a962.4043 KIN
100			_aRajeev Kinra
245			_aWriting self, writing empire _b: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary _c/Rajeev Kinra
260			_aOakland, California _b: University of California Press _c, 2015
300			_axix, 371 pages _c;26 cm.
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490			_aSouth Asia across the disciplines.
505			_a Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.
520			_aWriting Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence
650			_aHistory
655			_aIndia--Mogul Empire _bBrāhman, Candar Bhān, -- 1614-1663 -- Criticism and interpretation.
700			_aRajeev Kinra
942			_cBOOK