Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800Originally published in 2007, this fascinating work is based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia between around 1400 and 1800. The first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama), it 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 rich and unsuspected vista of cultural and material history. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 20 |
Section 2 | 42 |
Section 3 | 45 |
Section 4 | 48 |
Section 5 | 67 |
Section 6 | 77 |
Section 7 | 84 |
Section 8 | 93 |
Section 18 | 150 |
Section 19 | 156 |
Section 20 | 175 |
Section 21 | 192 |
Section 22 | 203 |
Section 23 | 206 |
Section 24 | 218 |
Section 25 | 221 |
Section 9 | 95 |
Section 10 | 98 |
Section 11 | 99 |
Section 12 | 110 |
Section 13 | 120 |
Section 14 | 130 |
Section 15 | 139 |
Section 16 | 141 |
Section 17 | 142 |
Section 26 | 243 |
Section 27 | 252 |
Section 28 | 269 |
Section 29 | 273 |
Section 30 | 294 |
Section 31 | 296 |
Section 32 | 298 |
Section 33 | 313 |
Section 34 | 332 |
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Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800 Muzaffar Alam,Sanjay Subrahmanyam No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
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