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• A Turkish Professor at Delhi Customs
  Translation of an excerpt from the Turkish-Cypriot sociologist and historian Niyazi Berkes’s “Letters from Asia,” which recounts his experiences in Delhi on the way to Aligarh Muslim University, where he was heading as a visiting professor.
• Delhi: The Last Capital of the Turkish Rulers
  Translation of a major Turkish journalist and politician’s report of his sojourn in Delhi.
• Brief aus Chochinchina (Letter from Cochin in India)
  A letter sent from Cochin in India, dated 1580, written by an anonymous author and addressed to a mr. Adelgais, probably Hans Adelgais, the factor of the famous Fugger company in Antwerp, Cologne, and later in Augsburg and Frankfurt. The letter relates the journey from Lisbon to India and discusses practical issues and aspects of a European trader’s life in India, but also makes claims about the local religion and customs.
• Indianische Raisz von dreyen Ehrwurdigen Priestern der Societet Iesu (The Indian Voyage of Three Venerable Priests of the Society of Jesus)
  German translation from 1620-1621 consisting of a series of (edited) letters translated from Italian and French, and added unto each other in order to promote the Jesuit missions to Asia, in particular the 1618 expedition from Lisbon led by Jesuit priest Nicolas Trigault. The mission’s main object was reaching China, for which its members were primarily known, yet they passed by and worked in Goa for some time, hence their correspondence contains lesser-known descriptions of India.
• V imenu Gospodovem (In the Name of the Lord)
  The translation consists of excerpts from a travelogue by Slovene Jesuit missionary Stanko Poderžaj, originally published serially in eleven installments of Katoliški misijoni, Ljubljana. The chosen passage concerns the author’s visit to the Kalighat temple in Calcutta.
• ‘Alleen de haat is reëel’ (‘Only the hate is real’)
  Translation of an article titled “Wat is de kleine wereld groot! ‘Alleen de haat is reëel’” (How big is the small world! ‘Only the hate is real), published in the Belgian Catholic newspaper De Standaard, on January 9, 1958.