Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangueir by Jahangir, David Price - 9781108056007

Memoirs of the Emperor JahangueirWritten by Himself\nAuthor(s): Jahangir, David Price\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108056007, 978-1108056007\nSynopsis\nThe manuscript source for this translation of the memoirs of the Mughal emperor Jahangir [tel] is the spurious Tarikh-i-Salim Shahi, produced around three years after its subject's death. Serving the East India Company from 1781 as a soldier and, following injury, as a translator, agent and judge-advocate-general, David Price [tel] studied Persian and collected many manuscripts. After leaving India in 1805, he devoted his time to scholarship as a member of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Oriental Translation Fund, which awarded him its gold medal in 1830. In this work, first published in 1829, Price notes throughout where the source is illegible, problematic or incongruous. The translation is carefully made and provides an account of the.