Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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A Catalogue of Works on Oriental History, Languages and Literature
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orient
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New-York Society Library: with a Brief Historical Notice of the Institution, the Original Articles of Association, in 1754, and the Charter and by-Laws of the Society
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385606187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Alphabetical and analytical catalogue. With a historical notice of the institution
Author: New York city, New York soc. librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An Earthly Paradise
Author: Raziuddin AquilPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000071804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This collection of articles on varied facets of early modern Bengal showcases cutting edge work in the field and hopes to encourage new research. The essays explore the trading networks, religious traditions, artistic and literary patronage, and politico-cultural practices that emerged in roughly sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Using a wide array of sources, the contributors to this volume, coming from diverse academic affiliations,and including many young researchers, have attempted to address various historiographical ‘black holes’ bringing in new material and interpretations. Early modern Bengal’s history tends to get overshadowed by the later developments of the nineteenth century. What this assortment of articles highlights is that this period needs to be studied afresh, and in depth. The region underwent rapid transformations as it got politically integrated with Northern India and its empires and economically with extensive global economic networks. Combined with its unique geography, the trajectory of this region in all spheres manifest an almost constant interplay of local and extra-local forces – be it in literature, art, economic domain, political and religious cultures – and considerable enterprise and ingenuity. Thus, a variety of themes – including travel accounts, Portuguese and Arakanese presence, early Dutch, French, Ostend companies’ forays into the region, artistic production in the Nizamat and later collections of art and missionaries, the English company state’s intrusions in local economy in salt and raw silk production and indigenous reactions and rebellions, consumption practices related to religious activities, circulation and translation of texts, representation of women in vernacular writings, and organization of religious traditions – have been analysed in this volume, with a wide ranging introduction tying up the themes to the broader historiographical issues and contexts. The collection will be an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of history, especially of early modern India. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New York Society Library
Author: New York Society LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Farzana
Author: Julia KeayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857735691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Amongst the riches of nineteenth century India, as the British fought their way across Mughal territory, an orphaned streetgirl ends up at court with the ear of the Emperor. That girl was Farzana, and she would become a courtesan, a leader of armies, a treasured defender of the last Mughal emperor and the head of one of the most legendary courts in history. In this beautifully written book, the author's last, Julia Keay weaves a story which spans the Indian continent and the end of a golden era in Indian history, the story of a nobody who became a teenage seductress and died one of the richest and most prominent women of her age. Farzana rode into battle atop a stallion, though only 4 1/2 feet tall, and led an army which defended a sickly Mughal Empire. She dabbled in witchcraft while gaining favour with the Pope, and died a favourite of the British Raj. Farzana is an evocative and moving depiction of one of the most remarkable, and least-known, historical lives of the nineteenth century.
Shahjahanabad
Author: Stephen P. BlakePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city.
Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Catalogue of the California State Library
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description