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to send a letter from Shah Alam II and 1 lakh takas. I'tisam was also accompanied by his servant, Muhammad Muqim. After three weeks at sea, Swinton revealed to I'tisam that neither the letter from Shah Alam nor his tribute of a lakh of takas was on board as it had been seized by
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later on sent the money to the
English king, on his own behalf to suppress contact between England and the Mughals. As such I'tisam never ended up meeting George III and instead accompanied Swinton to
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552:"Shigurf namah i velaÃĢt, or, Excellent intelligence concerning Europe : being the travels of Mirza Itesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France"
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Syed
Muhammad I'tisam-ud-Din was born in 1730, to Sheikh Syed Taj-ud-Din, at the local Kazipara Masjid near his village. He belonged to a
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Later, I'tisam served under
Captain Mackinon as paymaster for an orphanage. He fought alongside Mackinon and the Company against
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His birthplace, Kazipara Masjid, still stands today and his forefathers had to arrived to
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and had another audience with the
Emperor Shah Alam at Jahazgarh. He assisted Colonel Carnac in a battle from
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The contemporary
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He returned to Bengal after a three-year absence due to food problems. He was later employed by the
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if he was willing to work under him as a Munshi as well as the opportunity to travel to Europe. In
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in 1766. He remained in London for three months before reuniting with Swinton in
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and drew up treaties and settled peace. Locals gave Itesamuddin the nickname of
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from the village of Panchnur, they had been respected family who had been
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The ancient Kazipara mosque in I'tisam-ud-Din's birthplace at Chakdah
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Shigurf Namah i Vilayat (Excellent intelligence concerning Europe)
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with South Asian manuscripts, the translation of the Persian book
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436:. In Nantes, Swinton left for England while I'tisam remained in
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292:. Munshi Salimullah and Mirza Muhammad Qasim, who worked under
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557:Nasab Namah (Family tree of Itisam Uddin)
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583:Sarkar, Bipulranjan (22 August 2011).
566:It is estimated that he died in 1800.
516:(or 'Wonder Book of England'), in the
477:to those who intended to work in the
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447:From Calais, I'tisam took a ship to
375:In 1765, he entered the service of
296:, trained I'tisam to also become a
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956:18th-century Mughal Empire people
793:The journals of Archibald Swinton
471:A grammar of the Persian language
363:. Bardette also made I'tisam the
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328:, he entered the service of the
54:A portrait of the Mirza smoking
469:into English and Jones' book,
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851:Bengalis in London's East End
644:Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
387:offered I'tisam the title of
237:Mir Jumla's invasion of Assam
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911:(in Bengali). Archived from
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626:"I'tesamuddin, Mirza Sheikh"
340:. After the battle, Emperor
72:Syed Muhammad I'tisam al-Din
39:Syed Muhammad I'tisam al-Din
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961:18th-century Indian writers
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246:. His ancestors settled in
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512:In 1785, he published the
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440:for a month travelling to
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278:. His elder brother was a
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743:Aligarh Muslim University
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493:in negotiations with the
312:He began his career as a
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185:Early life and ancestry
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514:Shigurf-nama-i-Wilayat
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324:. On the accession of
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542:Treaty of Allahabad
466:Farhang-i-Jahangiri
355:in 1763 during the
300:and taught him the
284:and adviser to the
209:, near the town of
179:Treaty of Allahabad
250:after fleeing the
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461:Sir William Jones
430:Cape of Good Hope
276:Persian languages
232:Fathiya-i 'Ibriya
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971:1800 deaths
966:1730 births
789:Evan Cotton
595:14 February
451:, reaching
393:Murshidabad
377:John Carnac
322:Murshidabad
935:Categories
741:(Thesis).
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570:References
526:Hindustani
426:Madagascar
272:Hindustani
201:family of
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422:Mauritius
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326:Mir Qasim
318:Mir Jafar
294:Mir Jafar
258:Education
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522:England
475:Persian
453:Britain
338:Birbhum
268:Bengali
217:in the
213:within
207:Sheikhs
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457:Oxford
442:Calais
438:France
428:, the
418:France
414:Nantes
314:munshi
308:Career
298:munshi
264:Arabic
248:Bengal
244:Pandua
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389:Mirza
281:mufti
203:Syeds
124:Sunni
114:Islam
83:Nadia
56:hukka
921:2019
677:2024
658:OCLC
648:ISBN
597:2017
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503:Pune
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