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Author Mirzā Sangīn Bayg, active 1818-1820, author.

Title Delhi in transition, 1821 and beyond : Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul manazil / Shama Mitra Chenoy
Edition First edition
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Summary This work is an annotated translation of Mirza Sangin Beg's Sair-ul Manazil which is one of the last works on Delhi written in Persian. The editor introduces the text to the readers and then proceeds with the translation on the basis of comparison of the four existing copies of the text including the Berlin manuscript which is being consulted for the first time. It depicts the early nineteenth-century Delhi as a city in transition. The original work was commissioned by the English East India Company between 1818 and 1820 and it documents the layout of the city and the author's observations regarding the buildings, habitations, bazars, localities, residences, individuals, as well as anecdotes of city life and expressions of rich local cultures
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the Persian
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 6, 2018)
Subject Mirzā Sangīn Bayg, active 1818-1820. Sayr al-manāzil
Buildings
Manners and customs
Travel
SUBJECT Delhi (India) -- Description and travel
Delhi (India) -- History -- 19th century
Delhi (India) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Delhi (India) -- Social life and customs
Subject India -- Delhi
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chenoy, Shama Mitra, editor, translator.
ISBN 9780199090907
0199090904
Other Titles Sayr al-manāzil. English