An Account of My Life (Gohur-I-Ikbal) (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Jahan Begam, Sultan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331883393 ISBN 13: 9781331883395

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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For their kindness in placing portraits at my disposal I indebted to Lady Meade, Sir David W. Keith Barr, and Sir Arthur Wollaston, President of the Northbrook Society.

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Some years before her death, the late Begam of Bhopal published a history of her State from its foundation down to the year 1872. This work is entitled Taj-ul-Ikbal, and was translated into English by Mr. H. C. Barstow of the Bengal Civil Service, and sometime Political Agent in Bhopal. An Account of My Life, called in Urdu Gohur-i-Ikbal, is a sequel to the Taj-ul-Ikbal. The objects with which it has been composed are sufficiently explained in the opening pages of the first chapter. Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam does not claim to have written a book that will interest the general public. But perhaps her own remarkable personality, the unique position which, as a female ruler, she holds in the Muhammadan world, together with the simple and spirited manner in which she tells her story, and the insight it affords into life in one of the most interesting as well as one of the most loyal of the Feudatory States of India, may attract a wider circle of readers than Her Highness's modesty has allowed her to anticipate.

It will, I think, be admitted by the majority of those who have had experience in turning Oriental languages into English that a word-for-word translation not only results in disjointed and unnatural English, but is apt to produce an altogether distorted impression of the authors meaning and literary style. In the following pages I have endeavoured to convey to English readers the same meaning which, as far as I am able to judge, the Urdu original is intended to convey to Muhammadan readers. The translation is as literal as I could make it, consistently with this aim. In some cases correspondence and speeches originally in English were only available in Urdu translations; I have, therefore, had to retranslate them.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331883393
• ISBN 13: 9781331883395
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496