TY - BOOK AU - Harris, Jonathan Gil TI - The first firangis : : remarkable stories of heroes, healers, charlatans, courtesans & other foreigners who became Indian SN - 9789382277637 U1 - 305.9069121 PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Aleph Book Company, KW - Immigrants India History 17th century N1 - Bib and Ref N2 - 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 twenty-first-century firangi, tells their stories ER -