Ep 184: Finding Dara Shukoh
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of English in Persia
I'm working on a book that, in some indirect ways, is a sequel to this. Part of the idea starts by seeing what happens to dala shike's writings. So orazib did do his best to efface traces of taloshiko. He didn't succeed completely. Later rulers and writers did try to complete the work. They were using potin just like elit indians use english to day. English is seen as the passport to success, to a shot at a good middle class, upper middle class live social nobility.
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