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The “Moghul’s Admiral”: Angrian “Piracy” and the Rise of British Bombay
Journal of Early Modern History, 2013Abstract This article explores the political and legal construction of the concept of piracy in British India. By examining the discourses promulgated and policies enacted in the Bombay Presidency in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it shows how the seemingly paradoxical designation of coastal polities as “piratical states” opened up new
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The Mulfuzat Timury, or, Autobiographical Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Timur
2013The Mughal emperor Timur (1336–1405), known also as Tamerlane, conquered large parts of central Asia in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. He was renowned for being an exceptionally good military strategist, but also for being a ruthless conqueror. His purported autobiography was not published in English until 1830, when it was translated by
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Power and Distant Display: Early English "Ambassadors" in Moghul India
Huntington Library Quarterly, 1998A t Sir Thomas Roe's 1615 landing on the beaches of Surat, the English fleet and royal actor performed an "inaugural scene" that was less than novel to its native spectators. Although Roe was the first English ambassador to set foot in India, belatedness nagged the embassy.
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Moghul Khans from Muraqqaʻ Tasavir-i Salatin-i Kashghar. Part I
Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript ResearchThe article introduces a reader to a small handwritten album of miniatures in the Persian style (muraqqa‘), most likely originating from Kashgaria (modern XUAR of the PRC) and currently stored in the manuscript fund of the Malek National Library and Museum in Tehran (IRI). The album contains eight miniature portraits of the “Sultans of Kashgar” (i. e.,
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England in Moghul India: Historicizing Cultural Difference and Its Discontents
2004No recent work better exemplifies the postcolonial proposition that Western historicity empowers colonial habits of thought than Bernard Lewis’s bestseller What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East.1 As his title suggests, Lewis imagines the Islamic world of the Arabs as a culture or polity that is by definition ...
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Urban Infrastructure and Special Economic Zone (SEZ): Challenges for Corporate Land Alienation
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2021Bhubaneswari Bisoyi, Satpathy Ipseeta
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