Memoirs Of The Emperor Jahangueir
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Author | : Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Wheeler Thackstons lively new translation ofThe Jahangirnama, co-published with the Freer/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, presents an engaging portrait of an intriguing emperor and his flourishing empire. The Emperor Jahangir is probably best know in the West as being the father of Shahjahan, who built the Taj Mahal. His reign was one of great prosperity, and his passion for art and nature encouraged a flowering that some say rivaled European art during the rule of the Medicis. In penning his memoirs, Jahangir followed a tradition begun by his great-grandfather, the Emperor Babur. Jahangirs memoirs, however, provide not only the history of his reign, but also his reflections on art, politics, and private details about his familyincluding the suicide of one of his wivesand selections of poetry written by members of his harem. One of Jahangirs stories describes his astonishment at witnessing the fall of a meteorite, an event that so amazed him that he ordered that a dagger be made from its metal. This book includes a selection of exquisite full-color paintings, drawings, and objects that specifically illustrate the passages they accompany--including a photograph of the Emperors treasured dagger. A lover of jewels, nature, hunting, drinking, and opiates, Jahangir carried the Mughal empire to artistic and political heights. Refreshingly candid and frank, this splendidly illustrated edition of Jahangirs memoirs is a thoroughly absorbing profile of an emperor and the zenith of his empire.
Author | : Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Jahangir |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108056008 |
Although based on a flawed manuscript source, this 1829 translation is nevertheless a fascinating reflection of Mughal historiography.
Author | : Som Prakash Verma |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000546837 |
This volume depicts the life and times of the Mughal emperor Jahangir in the light of his memoirs, Jahangirnama, popularly known as Tuzuk-i Jahangiri. With its fresh treatment of source material and a vivid account of historical events, the book tells the history of Jahangir’s India through his intimate and confessional memoirs incorporated in the genre of Mughal manuscript painting. The work is noteworthy for its historical portraits as well as Jahangir’s visual realism, his remarkable knowledge of natural history, and the perceptive and detailed descriptions of the world around him. Moving away from conventional historical writing, the book is a psychological study of an individual, his innate qualities, behavioural moves and instinctive affinities. Jahangir’s memoirs reveal deeper facets of him as a person as well as a poet, aesthete, connoisseur of painting and a keen observer of nature, both human and that of the natural world. The author also includes other contemporary literature of the period that narrate Jahangir’s life, such as Akbarnama, Ma’asir-i Jahangiri, Iqbalnama-i Jahangiri, Intikhab-i Jahangiri, Tatimma-i Waqi’at-i Jahangiri and Zakhirat-ul Khwanin, as well as Jesuits accounts and travelogues. He further analyses the influence of European Renaissance art on the history of Mughal paintings. A first of its kind, this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of medieval history, Indian history, Mughal history, art history, popular culture and South Asian studies, as well as the general reader.
Author | : Lisa Balabanlilar |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1838600442 |
Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal. Although an alcoholic and opium addict, his reputation marred by rebellion against his father, once enthroned the Emperor Jahangir proved to be an adept politician. He was also a thoughtful and reflective memoirist and a generous patron of the arts, responsible for an innovative golden age in Mughal painting. Through a close study of the seventeenth century Mughal court chronicles, The Emperor Jahangir sheds new light on this remarkable historical figure, exploring Jahangir's struggle for power and defense of kingship, his addictions and insecurities, his relationship with his favourite wife, the Empress Nur Jahan, and with his sons, whose own failed rebellions bookended his reign.
Author | : Parvati Sharma |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-02-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9789353450953 |
Jahangir was perhaps the most fascinating, and most underestimated, of the Mughal emperors. This compelling, beautifully written biography reveals him to be more than just a great lover of art and nature, ruling alongside his powerful wife nurjahan -
Author | : Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788175364103 |
Author | : Muṭribī al-Aṣamm al-Samarqandī |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Second, it provides insight into the enduring Mughal attachment to their Central Asian homeland, which Jahangir demonstrates most profoundly in his conversations with his visitor from Samarqand. Finally, it is an important historical document of Jahangir's reign, filling in the period just months before his death, after his own memoirs had left off.
Author | : Henry Beveridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789354040436 |
Author | : W.M. Thackston, Jr. |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307431959 |
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes notes, indices, maps, and illustrations. From the Trade Paperback edition.