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

[Elizabeth De Michelis]

Dear All,

sorry for the message gone back to the list rather than to my  
colleague, as intended.

Regards

EDM

On 25 Jan 2007, at 23:12, Elizabeth De Michelis wrote:

> 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
>>
>> NOVUS PRESS,
>> HERMAN FOSS GATE 19,
>> NO-0171 OSLO, NORWAY
>> E-mail: novus at novus.no
>> Telefax, +47 2271 8107
>> http://www.novus.no
>>
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