A European experience of the Mughal Orient : the Iʻjāz-i arsalānī (Persian letters 1773-1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier /
Polier,colonel de(Antoine-Louis-Henri),1741-1795.
Alam, Muzaffar,1947-
Alavi, Seema.
New Delhi : Oxford University Press,
2007, c2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Polier and his works -- Eighteenth-century India's encounter with the West -- Shopping in the Oriental bazaar -- The eighteenth-century library of social categories -- Casting the Mughal: the English and the European way -- Polier's letters -- Glossary.