Ep 184: Finding Dara Shukoh
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Persia and the Indo-Udo Debate of the Nineteenth Century
In the eighteenth century, there was more persian being produced in india than any again. And but i find that even after the colonial government abandons it as an official language and abandons some of its earlier interest in orientalism,. The kind of mapole o influence that we seek cropping up. It doesn't really dieif we have these generations of people who were ated in persian. They learn persian becuse they also want to get jobs in the colonial administration. But then they find it doesn't quite serve them as well.
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