The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and
microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean
and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at
the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned
under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and
intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and
surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape
and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia.
Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which
Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the
Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the
Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and
exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
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