Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XCII, 220 Seiten)
,
illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780199090907
Content:
This work is an annotated translation of Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul Manazil which is one of the last works on Delhi written in Persian. The editor introduces the text to the readers and then proceeds with the translation on the basis of comparison of the four existing copies of the text including the Berlin manuscript which is being consulted for the first time. It depicts the early nineteenth-century Delhi as a city in transition. The original work was commissioned by the English East India Company between 1818 and 1820 and it documents the layout of the city and the author's observations regarding the buildings, habitations, bazars, localities, residences, individuals, as well as anecdotes of city life and expressions of rich local cultures.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2018. - Translated from the Persian. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 6, 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199477739
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mirzā Sangīn Baig Delhi in transition, 1821 and beyond New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2017 ISBN 0199477736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199477739
Language:
English
Keywords:
Delhi
;
Geschichte 1821
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199477739.001.0001
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