Arthur Dudney is Director of Cultural Programmes at the Arcadia Fund. He was formerly a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Mellon Fellow at the University of Oxford. He received a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies from Columbia University and an AB in Classics from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

India in the Persian World of Letters is an informative and illuminating reading for historians of Persian literary culture and scholars of South Asian intellectual history alike.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction 1: A Literate Life: Placing =Arz=u and his Works in their Social Context 2: =Arz=u's Fruitful Theory of Language 3: Innovation and Poetic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Persian 4: Dictionaries Delimiting Literary Language 5: Building a Vernacular Culture on the Ruins of Persian 6: How Language Actually Works: Contrasting Europe and the Non-West Conclusion References

Arthur Dudney is Director of Cultural Programmes at the Arcadia Fund. He was formerly a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Mellon Fellow at the University of Oxford. He received a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies from Columbia University and an AB in Classics from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

India in the Persian World of Letters is an informative and illuminating reading for historians of Persian literary culture and scholars of South Asian intellectual history alike.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction 1: A Literate Life: Placing =Arz=u and his Works in their Social Context 2: =Arz=u's Fruitful Theory of Language 3: Innovation and Poetic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Persian 4: Dictionaries Delimiting Literary Language 5: Building a Vernacular Culture on the Ruins of Persian 6: How Language Actually Works: Contrasting Europe and the Non-West Conclusion References