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Scope and Contents A history of the city of Surat, in the west Indian state of Gujarat, with appendices about its vicinities like Bhimnagar. The author, Ranchhūrjī Walad-i Amrjī Dīvān, deliberately mentions he had tried to exclude everything written in previous works about the kings of Hind and Gujarat, and instead has focused on the county, relying on oral and local narrations of the region.It was originally written for James Erskine. This may be John James Erskine (1771-1833), a member of the...