In his research, Postdoctoral Scholar Jean Arzoumanov discovered that #Persian served as the language of #Colonial India's religious surveys. Adrija Roychowdhury reports for @indianexpress.com on his work. 📖
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Historian Jean Arzoumanov’s discovery of an 18th-century Jain text in Persian reveals a forgotten era where Hindu scholars used the ‘Islamic’ lingua franca to help British officers survey India’s…