India in the Persian World of Letters: ?han-i Arzu among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists

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This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in the Persian tradition in India, concentrating on its socio-political ramifications. The most influential Indo-Persian philologist of the eighteenth-century was Sirāj al-Dīn 'Alī Khān, (d....