The First Firangis :Remarkable Stories of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian - Jonathan Gil Harris
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The Indian subcontinent has been a land of immigrants for thousands of years: waves of migration from Persia, Central Asia, Mongolia, the Middle East and Greece have helped create India’s exceptionally diverse cultural mix. In the centuries before the British Raj, when the Mughals were the preeminent power in the subcontinent, a wide array of migrants known as ‘firangis’ made India their home. In this book, Jonathan Gil Harris, a 21st-century firangi, tells their stories.
These gripping accounts are of healers, soldiers, artists, ascetics, thieves, pirates and courtesans who were not powerful or privileged. Often they were escaping poverty or religious persecution; many were brought here as slaves; others simply followed their spirit of adventure. Some of these migrants were absorbed into the military. Others fell in with religious communities - the Catholics of Rachol, the underground Jews of Goa, the fakirs of Ajmer, the Sufis of Delhi. Healers from Portugal and Italy adapted their medical practice in accordance with local traditions. Gifted artisans from Europe joined Akbar’s and Jahangir’s royal ateliers and helped create enduring works of art. And though almost invisible within the archival record, some migrant women, such as the Armenian Bibi Juliana and the Portuguese Juliana Dias da Costa, found a home in royal Mughal harems.
Jonathan Gil Harris uses his own experience of becoming Indian through the process of acclimatizing to the country’s culture, customs, weather, food, clothes and customs to bring the stories of these shadowy figures to vivid life.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
July 1st, 2020
Thank you darklord for another intriguing title! Your titles have enriched my learning and thus my education, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn.
My parents taught us children ‘Life is for learning, and if you’re not learning something everyday you are truly impoverished.’
Again, thank you and I look forward to your next titles!
July 2nd, 2020
Thank you.
July 2nd, 2020
@spaniel1 glad I’m of help!
July 2nd, 2020
Hey Darklord981 youve been posting a ton of awesome books on south asian history, any chance you can put up some works that span all south asian history like John Keays India A History or similar?
July 2nd, 2020
@misterhazrat if you have a specific book in mind do tell me. I don’t think there’s an audiobook version of John Keays’s book.
July 29th, 2020
Hey Darklord, can you add Nayanjot Lahiri’s ‘Time peices’. It’s a wonderful book.
And thanks for the wonderful titles.
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