India in the Persian world of letters : Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the eighteenth-century philologists /

"This study traces the development of philology (the analysis 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 ʻAlī Ḳhān (d. 1756), whose pen-name...

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