01740nam a2200157Ia 4500 20250627175624.0 250627s9999 xx 000 0 und d 9780195676778 910.92 HAS Lutfullah Seamless Boundaries Oxford University Press, USA 2007 "Seamless Boundaries presents the autobiography of the nineteenth-century traveller Lutfullah Khan. First published in 1857, the Autobiography of Lutfullah is one of the earliest known works of its kind by an Indian in English." "Belonging to a Sufi lineage of the Malwa region, Lutfullah fled from his ancestral home to Agra. During the subsequent years he travelled extensively and taught Arabic, Persian, Gujarati, and Marathi to English newcomers in the East India Company. The last of these journeys was his notable voyage to and description of England in 1844. This in many ways was the culmination of Lutfullah's interest in the language and culture of the British." "Traversing geographical and cultural boundaries, Lutfullah's narrative defies conventional labels. With an orientation not 'secular' in the European sense, and yet able to respect composite practices, he envisioned a lived Islam in harmony with other religious and philosophical traditions." "The autobiography uncovers important socio-cultural dimensions such as the absence of contemporary oft-perceived Hindu-Muslim tensions in central India. His taste for British cultural, literary, and artistic life was not uncritical. There was, if anything, a hidden tension between his admiration for British Enlightenment values and his attachment to Indian and Islamic traditions."--BOOK JACKET. England ENGLISH 574145 574145 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL 7B 2025-06-27 0 910.92 HAS 110781 2025-06-27 17:56:24 2025-06-27 ENGLISH