Remembrances
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 14, 2019
Language: eng; per
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674660298
Description: 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.--
Notes: Source title: Remembrances (Murty Classical Library of India)