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Asok Das
Santiniketan
Former Director City Palace Museum,Jaipur and Visiting Fellow to various Museums around the world
Interests: Interested in Mughal and related arts
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I enjoyed reading it. What about Ubaid's Mosh wa Gorbeh?
Editor: I'm glad you enjoyed it! We do actually have an illustrated copy (IO Islamic 4581) of a poem 'Mush u gurbah' by a Qajar poet 'Sha'iq', composed in 1828. It merits a blog of its own, so watch this space!
Cats in Persian manuscripts
Since August 8th is International Cat Day, it seemed a good excuse to publish some of the more picturesque felines from the manuscripts we have been working with during the last three years of our project ‘Digital Access to Persian Manuscripts’. Double-page opening to the tales of the two jack...
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