A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the Iʿjāz-i-Arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier

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A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the Iʿjāz-i-Arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier

translated and with an introduction by Muzaffar Alam and Seema Alavi

Oxford University Press, c2001

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Includes bibliographical references ( p. [399]-404) and index

Translated from the Persian

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This book is an English translation of the Persian correspondence between an 18th century European military officer in India and northern Indian nobility and commoners. An extensive discursive introduction locates the text in the context of social and cultural interaction between the Europeans and Indians.

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