The mirror of beauty : being the tale of an extraordinary woman in nineteenth-century India who struggled all her life to choose for herself against all odds, narrated as a politico-historical romance / by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2014Description: xxii, 961 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780143422730 (pbk)Uniform titles: English Subject(s): Delhi (India) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | Manners and customsGenre/Form: Historical fiction, Urdu -- Translations into English.DDC classification: 891.4393 Summary: Embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Novel.
Translated from Urdu.
Embarks on an epic journey that sweeps through the death-giving deserts of Rajputana, the verdant valley of Kashmir and the glorious cosmopolis of Delhi, the craft of miniature painting and the art of carpet designing, scintillating musical performances and recurring paintings of mysterious, alluring women.
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