Remembrances

By:

Mir, Mir Taqi

Contributor(s):

Naim, C. M [translator]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Persian Original language: Persian Series: Murty classical library of India ; 22Publication details: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, ©2019Description: xxii, 371 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780674988293

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

REF 891.439 23 MIR-R

LOC classification:

PK2198.M49 Z46 2019

Summary: Remembrances recounts Mir's ancestry, his father's spiritual quest, and his own struggles to find education and patronage both in his native Agra and in Delhi. While the work may offer few glimpses into the author's private life or professional literary activity, it presents a vivid picture of political events and intrigues between 1760 and 1789, when north India witnessed extensive warfare. The Persian text, presented here in the Naskh script, includes all the author's additions and alterations properly identified and chronologically arranged, along with a newly revised English translation. Mir concludes his autobiography with a series of jokes and witty anecdotes, some of them quite risqué, that are printed here for the first time.Other editions: Revision of:: Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810. Zikr-i Mir.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	IIITD General Stacks	Murty Classical Library of India	REF 891.439 MIR-R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		012116

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This book includes bibliographical references and an index

Remembrances recounts Mir's ancestry, his father's spiritual quest, and his own struggles to find education and patronage both in his native Agra and in Delhi. While the work may offer few glimpses into the author's private life or professional literary activity, it presents a vivid picture of political events and intrigues between 1760 and 1789, when north India witnessed extensive warfare. The Persian text, presented here in the Naskh script, includes all the author's additions and alterations properly identified and chronologically arranged, along with a newly revised English translation. Mir concludes his autobiography with a series of jokes and witty anecdotes, some of them quite risqué, that are printed here for the first time.

English and on facing page Persian ; Naskh script.

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