Delhi in transition, 1821 and beyond : Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul manazil / Shama Mitra Chenoy.
2018
DS486.D3
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Title
Delhi in transition, 1821 and beyond : Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul manazil / Shama Mitra Chenoy.
Uniform Title
Sayr al-manāzil. English
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199090907 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number
DS486.D3
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.560313
Summary
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
Translated from the Persian.
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 6, 2018).
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Chenoy, Shama Mitra, editor.
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