Aleph Book Company presents "The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories Of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian" by Jonathan Gill Harris - Book Launch at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 16th April 2015

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 16-04-2015 19:00:00 16-04-2015 20:30:00 68 Aleph Book Company presents "The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories Of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian" by Jonathan Gill Harris - Book Launch Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/aleph-book-company-presents-first.html Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : 
Aleph Book Company presents "The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories Of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian" by Jonathan Gill Harris - Book Launch. 
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. The author, a twenty-first-century firangi, tells their stories. These gripping accounts are of healers, soldiers, artists, ascetics, thieves, pirates and courtesans who were not powerful or privileged. Often they were escaping poverty or religious persecution; many were brought here as slaves; others simply followed their spirit of adventure. Some of these migrants were absorbed into the military. Others fell in with religious communities—the Catholics of Rachol, the underground Jews of Goa, the fakirs of Ajmer, the Sufis of Delhi. Healers from Portugal and Italy adapted their medical practice in accordance with local traditions. Gifted artisans from Europe joined Akbar’s and Jahangir’s royal ateliers, and helped create enduring works of art. And though almost invisible within the archival record, some migrant women such as the Armenian Bibi Juliana and the Portuguese Juliana Dias da Costa found a home in royal Mughal harems. Jonathan Gil Harris uses his own experience of becoming Indian through the process of acclimatizing to the country’s culture, customs, weather, food, clothes and customs to bring the stories of these shadowy figures to vivid life. 

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Aleph Book Company presents "The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories Of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian" by Jonathan Gill Harris - Book Launch at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 16th April 2015 Aleph Book Company presents "The First Firangis: Remarkable Stories Of Heroes, Healers, Charlatans, Courtesans & Other Foreigners Who Became Indian" by Jonathan Gill Harris - Book Launch at Habitat World, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 16th April 2015 Reviewed by DelhiEvents on Thursday, April 16, 2015 Rating: 5

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