Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary /

Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary /

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"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four di...

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Main Author: Kinra, Rajeev (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Brāhman, Candar Bhān, > 1614-1663.
Brāhman, Candar Bhān, > 1614-1663 > Criticism and interpretation.
Secretaries.
Persian literature.
Authors, Indic.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literature and literary studies.
Literary theory.
Humanities.
Biography: general.
Biography and True Stories.
Secretaires > Empire moghol > Biographies.
Litterature persane > Inde > Histoire et critique.
Écrivains de l'Inde > Empire moghol > Biographies.
Secretaries > Mogul Empire > Biography.
Persian literature > India > History and criticism.
Authors, Indic > Mogul Empire > Biography.
India > Mogul Empire.
India.
Empire moghol > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Mogul Empire > History > 17th century.
Poesie.
Poetry.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
poetry.
Poetry
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court
  • Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective
  • A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance
  • King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm
  • Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters
  • Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world
  • The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline
  • Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.

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