Asar-ul-Sanadid: a nineteenth-century history of Delhi’

In 1847 the Muslim educationist Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-98) published an Urdu text entitled Asar-ul-Sanadid, listing and describing the buildings of Delhi. On the basis of this publication, Sayyid Ahmad Khan was invited to join the Royal Asiatic Society and to write a second, improved edition (publi...

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Main Author: Fatima Quraishi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2012-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/quraishi.pdf