"Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across Central, South, and We…
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This volume explores two themes - historical traditions in early modern India et Mughal political culture as manifest in the cultures of history writing in Bengal. It analyses the interaction between Islamic cultural traditions in the South Asian sub-continent with Indic, vernac…
"This is a book about travelers-a group of twelve travelers who roamed around the globe mostly in the Nineteenth but some a bit earlier and some a bit after that crucial century. Somewhere between the Apostolic twelve and the twelve Shi'i Imams, this book determined the course o…
"This is a book about travelers--a group of twelve travelers who roamed around the globe mostly in the Nineteenth but some a bit earlier and some a bit after that crucial century. Somewhere between the Apostolic twelve and the twelve Shi'i Imams, this book determined the course …
The Laghu-Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha and its Persian translation -- Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and the Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha -- Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī and an Islamic framework for religious diversity -- Mīr Findiriskī and the Jūg Bāsisht -- A confluence of traditions: the Jūg Bāsisht revisited -- Conclus…
"During the height of Muslim power in South Asia, Muslim nobles of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) patronized the translation of a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language, including the Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, and numerous other works. In Translating Wis…
"During the height of Muslim power in South Asia, Muslim nobles of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) patronized the translation of a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language, including the Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, and numerous other works. In 'Translating Wi…