Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan's Asar-ul-Sanadid: the construction of history in nineteenth-century India

In 1847, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) published an Urdu text, listing and describing all notable monuments of Delhi entitled Asar-ul-Sanadid. His work so impressed British scholars in Delhi that he was invited to join the Asiatic Society and write a second, improved edition for translation into...

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Main Author: Quraishi, Fatima
Other Authors: Welch, Anthony
Language:English
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Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1419