خلاصة التواريخ كشمير Khulāṣat al-Tawārīkh-i Kashmīr, 1278 A.H., 1861 C.E.

This work (copied for the donor by one of the compilers from the holograph copy) is a short history of Kashmir from the earliest times. It was begun originally at the desire of some English officials by Mirzā Sayf al-Dīn, who held the post of record writer in Kashmir, and brought down by him to 1277 A.H. (1859 C.E.), but he died a year later. Some time after, the donor, on his appointment as British Agent in Kashmir, requested the brother and successor in office of the deceased, Mirzā Muḥyi al-Dīn, to continue and complete it; and he accordingly (see colophon) added a few subsequent events which had come under his own observation and finished the work on the 22nd October, 1861 C.E.

In the introduction it is stated that the material for this work was obtained from some old books of the Shastrīs in Sanskrit, and those of Malik-Ḥaydar Chādavarī (b. Ḥasan-Malik b. Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Nājī b. Malik-Nuṣrat, better known as Raʼīs al-Mulkī, who completed his work in 1030 A.H., 1621 C.E.), Muḥammad ‘Aẓām Dīdahmarī (b. Khayr-i Zamān-Khān, who completed his "Wāqi‘āt-i Kashmir" in 1160 A.H., 1747 C.E.), Narāyan-Kūl (poetically styled "‘Azīz," a Brahman who completed his work in 1122 A.H., 1710 C.E.), Mīr Sa‘d-Allāh Shāhābādī, and Purbar- Pandit Kāchrū.