Mira Bai
Mira Bai

Author: Usha Saksena Nilsson

Publisher: New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 78

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Travels Into Bokhara
Travels Into Bokhara

Author: Alexander Burnes

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022475540

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In this seminal work of travel literature, Alexander Burnes provides a fascinating glimpse into the cultural, social, and political landscape of Central Asia during the early 19th century. Burnes's travels, which took him from India to Afghanistan and beyond, were instrumental in shaping British colonial policy in the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Travels Into Bokhara
Travels Into Bokhara

Author: Sir Alexander Burnes

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9781318696697

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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

The Kitabi-i-yamini
The Kitabi-i-yamini

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Published: 1858

Total Pages: 570

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Al-Kitāb al-Yamīnī is a history of the early Ghaznavid dynasty, composed in Arabic sometime after 1020 by Muhammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbar ʻUtbi (died 1035 or 1036), a secretary and courtier who served the first two Ghaznavid rulers and personally witnessed many of the events recounted in the book. The Ghaznavids were a dynasty of Turkic origin founded by Sabuktakin (or Sebuktigin, ruled 977-97), a former slave who in 977 was recognized by the Samanids as governor of Ghazna (present-day Ghazni, Afghanistan). Sabuktakin and his son Mahmud (ruled 998-1030) expanded the territory under their control to create an empire that stretched from the Oxus River to the Indus valley and the Indian Ocean. Mahmud's son Masʻud I (reigned 1030-41) lost territories in Persia and Central Asia to the Seljuk Turks, but the Ghaznavids continued to rule eastern Afghanistan and northern India until 1186, when the dynasty fell. ʻUtbi's history is generally called al-Yamīnī (after Mahmud's moniker Yamin-al-dawla, "the right hand of the state"). It was translated into Persian in 1206-7 by Abushsharaf Noseh Ibni Zafari Jurfodiqoni, a minor official in western Persia. Jurfodiqoni's translation gradually came to replace the Arabic original in South Asia, Persia, Anatolia, and Central Asia. Presented here is an English translation of Jurfodiqoni's Persian version, published in London in 1858. The translation is by James Reynolds (1805-66), a British Orientalist and Anglican priest who translated several historical books from Persian and Arabic and who served as secretary to the Oriental Translation Fund of the Royal Asiatic Society. The book contains a long introduction by Reynolds, as well as Jurfodiqoni's preface to his Persian translation.

The Baburnama
The Baburnama

Author: Babur (Emperor of Hindustan)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 488

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Both an official chronicle and a highly personal memoir, the Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Central Asia and India during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It is also the text most often quoted by historians and scholars of Mughal India. The prose of Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, the first Mughal emperor, is described by its new translator Wheeler Thackston as frank, intimate, truthful, and unbiased. It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that the Baburnama is also the first real autobiography in Islamic literature. Babur had no historical precedent for his narrative, yet even today it is a remarkably engrossing volume to read. The interests that Babur expressed so eloquently in the memoirs - his profound curiosity about the natural world and human personalities, for example - defined also the directions that artists were to take. Dr. Thackston's translation provides many new insights into a particularly stimulating period in the world's history.

Cabool; a Personal Narrative of a Journey To, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, And 8
Cabool; a Personal Narrative of a Journey To, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, And 8

Author: Sir Alexander Burnes

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781230258942

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... 304 APPENDIX II. Report On The River Indus, By Lieut. John Wood, Indian Navy. General View of the Indus--The Navigable Character of the River--The Soundings in Indian Rivers--The Mode of Navigating the Indus--The Winds and Weather in the Valley of the Indus--The Boats upon the Indus --Steam Vessels--Remarks on the Steam-boats of the Ganges--The Fuel for Steam-lioats--Report by Captain Johnson on the relative Value of Wood and Coal--The Inundations of the Indus--Its Fords, and Site for the proposed Fair--The Indus and Punjaub Rivers--Concluding Remarks.-- Tables: --1. Comparison of Chronometers--2, 3, 4. Longitudes and Latitudes of Places in the Line of the Indus--5, 6. On the Soundings of the River--Tonnage--8, 9. Cost and Hire of Boats. I.--A General View of the Indus. This report is confined to the navigable Indus, or that portion of the river lying between the sea and Attock. Throughout the whole of this distance the river is known as the Sinde; sometimes indeed it is called the Attock, but this latter designation is local in its application. I have retained both, and apportioned them as follows: -- The Lower Sinde, or Indus, extends from the Sea to Bukkur. Upper Sinde, or Indus, extends from Bukkur to Kala Bagh. Attock, from Kala Bagh to Attock. By dividing the river into these sections, each is made to mark certain important alterations in the navigable character of the stream. It may here be premised, that of the course of the river north of Attock our knowledge is confessedly superficial. A few miles above that fortress the Indus ceases to be navigable; but not before it has received, in the Cabool river, a tributary that further extends the advantage of water-carriage to the west--the most important of all directions. Source.--To.