![]() Despite the fact that individuals who form corporations and take money from the people for public works- such as Haji Malek and other companies- give nothing back to the people but loss and regret. This water circulates through the town and people drink it and fall prey to all manner of maladies. The watercourses are open and the filth from the houses is washed away into them. The streets are all filthy – in winter covered in mud and sludge, and in the summer dusty and dirt-encrusted. Tehran street, late 1920s or early 1930s (Source unknown) “Throughout the year in Persia, and particularly in Tehran, several fatal, infectious diseases rage because of unhygienic conditions. Her research looks at the ways early modern women from Safavid and Mughal Empires were central to defining notions of ethics, power and empire-building that shaped the early modern Persianate world. The following is a guest post by Amanda Caterina Leong, a Ph.D Candidate in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Merced’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. ![]()
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