Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala

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Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala

edited and translated by C. Skinner

(Bibliotheca Indonesica / Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 22)

Martinus Nijhoff, 1982

  • : pbk

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Hikayat perintah negeri Benggala

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Note

Malay text, parallel English translation

Bibliography: p. [194]-198

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In this travel-diary Ahmad Rijaluddin recorded his impressions of a visit to Calcutta in 1810. Although the hikayat purports to give a description of negeri Benggala, the author focuses on Calcutta's government House. He is fascinated by the might and majesty of Raya Benggala. Ahmad's description is on the whole realistic and not without its humor, yet his style is conventional and reveals little of the writer's personality.

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