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‘The Voice of Mahmd’

The Hero in Ziy Baran's Fatw-i Jahndr

Commissioning Editor, Taylor & Francis Books India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. E-mail: nilanjansarkar{at}hotmail.com

This article is an initial attempt to study the ‘internal dynamics’ of the Fatw-i Jahndr, a ‘Mirrors for Princes’ text written in the mid-fourteenth century by Ziya Barani, an ex-courtier, resident in Delhi. It focuses on the author's use of the ‘voice’ of Mahmud of Ghazni and, through examples from the text, tries to understand possible meanings that it may have en-gendered for the narrative and the reader. As such, the article is both a methodological and empirical exercise.

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