BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Translation of 100-year old Urdu ms.

[Elizabeth De Michelis]

Dear Nile,

maybe of interest? (I am assuming you do not subscribe do Indology)

Will be in touch again early Feb re dinner.

Very best

Elizabeth

On 25 Jan 2007, at 15:42, Lars Martin Fosse wrote:

>
>
> Alberto M. Cacopardo and Ruth Laila Schmidt (eds.)
>
> My Heartrendingly Tragic Story
>
> Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah Khan 'Azar'
>
> The autobiography of Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah Khan 'Azar', a Kati  
> from the
> Bashgal Valley in Afghanistan, was written in 1908, in exile in  
> India, after
> a long period of service with the colonial rulers. In his account,  
> Azar
> recollects the laws, customs, religion and history of his people,  
> and adds
> his own life story. It is the only insider account of the Katis as  
> they
> lived before their subjugation and conversion by Amir Abdur Rahman  
> Khan in
> 1895-96, as well as an account of the Amir's campaign; and a rare
> description of his English masters by a colonial subject, at a time  
> when the
> British Empire was at the height of its power.
>         The entire original manuscript is reproduced in facsimile  
> as the
> second part of the book. Extensive annotations by Alberto Cacopardo  
> shed new
> light on the manuscript's historical background.
>         Alberto Cacopardo is a member of the Istituto Italiano per  
> l'Africa
> e l'Oriente and has done anthropological research on the cultures  
> of the
> Hindu Kush.
>         Ruth Laila Schmidt is professor of Urdu at the University  
> of Oslo,
> and has done research on Urdu and the Dardic language Shina.
>
> ISBN 978-82-7099-432-8
> 331 pp.
> Hardcover
> Map, photographs
> Introduction by Georg Morgenstierne
>
> NOK 390,-
> EUR 46,80
> Postage to Europe EUR 15; all other EUR 22
>
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