Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800 /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 399 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-383) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction : the travel-account from Beijing to the Bosphorus -- From Timur to the Bahmanis : fifteenth-century views -- Courtly encounters -- An ocean of wonders -- When hell is other people -- A western mirror -- The long road to Rum -- On early modern travel.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Travelers' writings, Persian-- History and criticism.
Reise
Reiseliteratur
Travel.
Travelers' writings, Persian-- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, Persian.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Asia, Central, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
India, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
Iran, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
Asia, Central, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
Central Asia.
India, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
India.
Indien
Iran
Iran, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.