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The Wonders of Vilayet Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765

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by Sheikh I'tesamuddin, Mirza; Haq, Kaiser

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1900715155
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2002-04-01
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
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In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali secretary employed by the East India Company, traveled 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 Robert Clive, but it resulted in this remarkable account of the Mirza's travels in Britain and Europe. This is an entertaining, unique, and culturally valuable document of those journeys.

Author Biography

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.

Translator's Introduction	p. 7
Invocation	p. 16
Background, Personal and Historical	p. 17
On the Sea and Sailing	p. 27
Mauritius and Other Places	p. 36
Rounding the Cape	p. 43
Vilayet At Last	p. 50
London	p. 56
London Entertainments	p. 64
The Madrassah of Oxford	p. 71
Scotland	p. 76
The Highlands	p. 82
On History and Religion	p. 86
More Religion	p. 95
The English Polity	p. 104
Education and Code of Life	p. 119
Vilayeti Miscellanea	p. 129
The Return	p. 137
Index	p. 146
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