The Incomparable Festival

Name: The Incomparable Festival
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Author: "SAHIB MIR YAR ALI 'JAN SAHIB'"
ISBN: 9780670093823

SAHIB MIR YAR ALI 'JAN SAHIB'

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The Incomparable Festival (Musaddas Tahniyat-e-Jashn-e-Benazir) by Mir Yar Ali (whose pen name was Jan Sahib) is a little known but sumptuous masterpiece of Indo-Islamic literary culture presented here for the first time in English translation. The long poem written in rhyming sestet stanzas is about the royal festival popularly called jashn-e-benazir(the incomparable festival) inaugurated in 1866 by the Nawab Kalb-e-Ali Khan (r. 1865-87) with the aim of promoting art culture and trade in his ki