The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765 by Kaiser Haq, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin

The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765

Kaiser Haq, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin

160 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin, a Bengali secretary employed by the East India Company, traveled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for the Mogul emperor Shah Alam II. The mission was aborted by the greed and duplicity of Robert Clive,...

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