TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kinra,Rajeev
ED  - Ohio Library and Information Network.
TI  - Writing self, writing empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of the Indo-Persian state secretary 
T2  - South Asia across the disciplines
SN  - 9780520961685
AV  - PK6451.B73 
U1  - 954.02 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Primus Books
KW  - Authors, Indic
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - Biography
KW  - Secretaries
KW  - Persian literature
KW  - India
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Indo-Iranian Languages & Literatures
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Poetry
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography; Open Access Electronic Book
N2  - "Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or Munshi, Chandar Bhan 'Brahman' (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the 'Great Mughals' whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire's power, territorial reach, and global influence"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ffjn5h
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.3
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63394/
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.3
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/4d1e696a-45a0-4328-9f17-d7e25e367144
ER  -