The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain
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ISBN13：9781900715157
出版社：Paul & Co Pub Consortium
作者：Mirza Sheikh I'Tesamuddin; Kaiser Haq (TRN)
出版日：2002/08/01
裝訂：平裝
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In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali munchi employed by the East India Company, travelled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for the Mogul Emperor Shah Alam II. The mission was aborted by the greed and duplicity of his employer, Robert Clive, but it resulted in this remarkable account of the Mirza's travels in Britain and Europe. Written in Persian, 'Shigurf Nama-e-Vilayet' or 'Wonderful Tales about Europe' is an entertaining, unique and culturally valuable document.
The Mirza was in no sense a colonial subject, and whilst he wrote frankly about what he felt accounted for India's decline and Europe's contemporary ascendance, he was a highly educated, culturally self-confident observer with a sharp and quizzical curiosity about the alien cultures he encountered. His accounts of visits to the theatre, the circus, freakshows, the 'mardrassah of Oxford', Scotland, of the racial alarms his presence sometimes provoked and of his impressions of British moral codes (including the 'filthy habits of the firinghees') make for fascinating reading.
Kaiser Haq's scholarly, modern translation is the first to appear in English since the original abridged and flawed translation which appeared in 1827. The Wonders of Vilayet is an important and salutary addition to Western accounts of the 'Otherness' of India, orientalism in reverse.
The Mirza was in no sense a colonial subject, and whilst he wrote frankly about what he felt accounted for India's decline and Europe's contemporary ascendance, he was a highly educated, culturally self-confident observer with a sharp and quizzical curiosity about the alien cultures he encountered. His accounts of visits to the theatre, the circus, freakshows, the 'mardrassah of Oxford', Scotland, of the racial alarms his presence sometimes provoked and of his impressions of British moral codes (including the 'filthy habits of the firinghees') make for fascinating reading.
Kaiser Haq's scholarly, modern translation is the first to appear in English since the original abridged and flawed translation which appeared in 1827. The Wonders of Vilayet is an important and salutary addition to Western accounts of the 'Otherness' of India, orientalism in reverse.
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Kaiser Haq was educated at Dhaka University and received his Ph.D. at Warwick. He was a commonwealth scholar at Warwick, senior Fulbright scholar, fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and professor of English at Dhaka University. He also fought in the Bangladesh war of independence as a commissioned officer. He is currently a poet and a professor of English at Dhaka University.
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