Specialized Persian and Indo-Persian Texts

Harvard FAS

This course will focus on Persian literary writings from South Asia, often referred to as Indo-Persian. In this iteration of the course, we will pay special attention to Indo-Persian writing from early modern period onwards. South Asian literary production of Persian writing straddled many different intellectual, religious, and political contexts between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, and articulated layered responses to the changing landscapes of colonial modernity. We will attend…