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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. 📖 🔗 tinyurl.com/3aunbcsv (paywall) #HistSci @astra-mpiwg.bsky.social
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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…
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How Persian became the language of colonial India’s religious surveys
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science