Remembrances / Mir Taqi Mir, edited and translated by C. M. Naim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810, author.

Contributor:

Naim, C. M., 1936-2025, editor, translator.

Series:

Murty classical library of India ; 22.

Murty classical library of India ; 22

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810.

Mīr, Mīr Taqī.

Authors, Urdu--India--Biography.

Authors, Urdu.

India.

Local Subjects:

Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810.

Authors, Urdu.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 371 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English and on facing page Persian ; Naskh script.

Summary:

Remembrances recounts Mir's ancestry, his father's spiritual quest, and his own struggles to find education and patronage both in his native Agra and in Delhi. While the work may offer few glimpses into the author's private life or professional literary activity, it presents a vivid picture of political events and intrigues between 1760 and 1789, when north India witnessed extensive warfare. The Persian text, presented here in the Naskh script, includes all the author's additions and alterations properly identified and chronologically arranged, along with a newly revised English translation. Mir concludes his autobiography with a series of jokes and witty anecdotes, some of them quite risqué, that are printed here for the first time.-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810. Z̲ikr-i Mīr.

Container of: Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810. Z̲ikr-i Mīr. English.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Z̲ikr-i Mīr. English. 019564588X Mīr, Mīr Taqī, -1810. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999

ISBN:

9780674660298

0674660293

OCLC:

1028623901