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Adventures of a Kashmiri merchant in Australia : an unknown Urdu travelogue

Place
Coolgardie
Perth
Subject
Category
Keywords
Commerce
Creator
Korvin, Gabor
Current holder
Item number
PR15719/2
Access rights
Request at location
Country of origin
Language
Period of reference
1898
Description from source
1 p.
Excerpts from a travelogue originally written in Urdu, in elegant nast’aliq script, which was found in the possession of a Pakistani family in Perth. The travelogue narrated the travels of Khwajah Mohammad Bukhsh who had moved to Perth and opened up shops. His father Aamir Bukhsh also came to Australia and died in Coolgardie in 1898.
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