"They Say...": Indian Talk Back as Indiaspeak in Ralph Fitch's Account of India in 1583

The account of a visit to India in 1583 by the Elizabethan leather seller, Ralph Fitch, is justly famous for the view it contains of India in the sixteenth century. Yet, the account has not been seen for the traces it has of Indians talking to Fitch in India, in the repeated intrusions of the phrase...

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Main Author: Habib, Imtiaz (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2016
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-325
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