2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. A Note on Transliteration xi
5. Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
6. Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900) 1
7. Part I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–1600
8. 1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World 75
9. 2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal 93
10. 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court 113
11. 4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia 131
12. Part II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–1800
13. 5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab 159
14. 6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China 175
15. 7. Speaking “Bukharan”: The Circulation of Persian Texts in Imperial Russia 193
16. 8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan 207
17. Part III. New Empires, New Nations, ca. 1800–1920
18. 9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example from Colonial India and Britain 225
19. 10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva’s Translation Program 243
20. 11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan 259
21. 12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu 279
22. Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium 301
23. Glossary 317
24. List of Contributors 319
25. Index 323