A From the Caucasus to the Indus
The book provides an insight into the lives of Khusro Mirza Beg, a scion of a princely family of Georgia, who was adopted by Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur, and Fareedun, also from Georgia, whose paths fatefully crossed thousands of miles away, in distant Sindh. The author traces the historical backgroun...
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Karachi
Oxford University Press
2005
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | The book provides an insight into the lives of Khusro Mirza Beg, a scion of a princely family of Georgia, who was adopted by Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur, and Fareedun, also from Georgia, whose paths fatefully crossed thousands of miles away, in distant Sindh. The author traces the historical background that led to the author's ancestors migration from Georgia in the early 1800's to Sindh, and focuses on Khusro's life as a young man, and his relationship with the Mirs of Sindh, and continues with the family history until the twentieth century |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 180, [1] p. ill., maps 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 019597848X 9780195978483 |