Safarnama
سفرنامہ
Safarnama
First two chapters freeSair-e-Dehli (A Visit to Delhi)
سیر دہلی
Shah Muhammad Akbar Danapuri
Shah Muhammad Akbar Abul-Ulai Danapuri's Sair-e-Dehli (1311 AH / 1894), the account of his visit to Delhi for a family wedding: the sachaq, nikah and walima, his own sehra, and three weeks of visits to the Jama Masjid, the Red Fort, the Zinat-ul-Masajid, the shrines of Shah Turkman, Sarmad, Khwaja Baqi Billah, Shah Waliullah's family, Khwaja Mir Dard, Nizamuddin Auliya and Qutb Sahib, the Old Fort and Humayun's Tomb, with a long lament for ruined Delhi and Lucknow and the author's reflections on Sufism, history and Muslim education. Complete Urdu text (Wikisource) and a facing English translation, with introduction and glossary. Cite as: Shah Muhammad Akbar Danapuri, Sair-e-Dehli, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/sair-e-dehli. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Safarnama
First two chapters freeSair-e-Kashmir (A Tour of Kashmir)
سیر کشمیر
Pandit Kanhaiya Lal Ashiq
Pandit Kanhaiya Lal Ashiq's Sair-e-Kashmir, the diary he kept in 1847 as guide and interpreter to an English traveller, printed in 1861-62: from Lahore by Sialkot to Jammu and the court of Maharaja Gulab Singh, over the snows of the Pir Panjal to the springs and Mughal gardens of the valley, Srinagar, the Dal and Wular lakes, Gulmarg, the rope bridge at Uri and Gurez, with the Persian inscriptions he copied on the way and a closing praise of the city of Kashmir. Complete Urdu text (Wikisource) and a facing English translation, with introduction and glossary. Cite as: Pandit Kanhaiya Lal Ashiq, Sair-e-Kashmir, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/sair-e-kashmir. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Safarnama
First two chapters freeAjaibat-e-Farang (The Wonders of Europe)
عجائبات فرنگ
Yusuf Khan Kambalposh
Yusuf Khan Kambalposh's account of his journey from Lucknow to England and back in 1837-38, often named as one of the first travel books in Urdu: the voyage round the Cape, months of sightseeing in London, a visit to France, the voyage home through the Mediterranean to Egypt and Mount Sinai, and a long ride across India from Bombay to Calcutta and Lucknow. Complete Urdu text of the 1898 Nawal Kishore edition from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Yusuf Khan Kambalposh, Ajaibat-e-Farang, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/ajaibat-e-farang. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Safarnama
First two chapters freeSharar ke Safarname (Sharar's Travels: Gibraltar, Italy, Switzerland and Palanpur)
شرر کے سفرنامے
Abdul Halim Sharar
Four travel pieces by Abdul Halim Sharar (1860-1926) of Lucknow, from his magazine Dilgudaz. On a journey between India and England in the 1890s he lands at Brindisi among tobacco beggars, marvels at the marble cathedral of Milan, rides the St Gotthard railway through the snows of the Alps, and spends six hours at Gibraltar, Tariq's Mountain, where the memory of Muslim Spain meets the sight of its Muslims sweeping the streets. Twenty years later he visits the small Mahdavi Muslim state of Palanpur in Gujarat, tells its history from the Tughluqs to the Raj, and describes the aged Nawab's court, the Eid procession and a dinner served in brass thalis. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Abdul Halim Sharar, Sharar ke Safarname, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/sharar-ke-safarname. The first two chapters are free to read.
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