HISTORY
INDO-PERSIAN ELITE IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
This book explores the intellectual and literary engagements of the Indo-Persianate intelligentsia from the late-Mughal era to the early colonial period. It situates the writings of the Indo-Islamic elite within the broader context of the Mughal empire’s gradual decline and the British colonial ascendancy. Additionally, it examines Indian agency in shaping the Orientalist tradition. Two dedicated chapters explore British Romantic writers’ fascination with the poetics of ^Hafi]z Shirazi and the modern critical reception of Indo-Persian poet Amir Khusraw Dehlavi. The book also presents ?Abd al-Karim Khan Jhajjari’s impressions of mid-nineteenth-century Britain by analyzing his Urdu travelogue, Siyahatnama (Book of Travels), and his Persian universal history, Mir‘at-i-gitinuma (World Reflecting Mirror), both housed in the British Library. About the Author Gulfishan Khan is a historian of Medieval and Early Modern South Asian History. She earned her doctorate from the University of Oxford. She is a recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship (SOAS) and Bahari Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford. She was also a Fulbright Fellow/Associate at Harvard University. She is the former Chairperson and Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
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