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Mogul Empire -- Politics and government

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

آئينِ اكبري Āʼīn-i Akbarī, 1197 A.H., 1782 C.E.

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Identifier: Or Ms 208
Scope and Contents This is a good copy containing numerous tables of the well-known āʼīn, or institutes, of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (949-1014 A.H. /1542-1605 C.E.). This work, which is usually regarded as a third volume or supplement to the Akbar-nāmah, is by the same author, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l "Allāmī." It contains a most detailed description and record of Akbar' s government in all its departments, revenues, statistics,...
Dates: 1197 A.H.; 1782 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

آئينِ اكبري Āʼīn-i Akbarī, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 209
Scope and Contents

This is an abridgement of a well-known work detailing the āʼīn, or institutes, of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (949-1014 A.H. / 1542-1605 C.E.). The current copy is limited to a number of ṣūbahs (provinces).

Dates: undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

آئينِ اكبري Āʼīn-i Akbarī, undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 210
Scope and Contents

This is an abridgement of a well-known work detailing the āʼīn, or institutes, of the Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (949-1014 A.H. / 1542-1605 C.E.). The current copy is limited to some of the minor institutes.

Dates: undated (original text compiled 16th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تأريخ بنگاله Ta’rīkh-i Bangālah, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 231
Scope and Contents

A history of Bengal, compiled by the order of Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Mulk Shams al-Dawlah Bahādur Tahawwur-Jang.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

تأريخ علی وردی خان Ta’rīkh-i 'Alī Wardī Khān, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 232
Scope and Contents

A history of Mirzā Muḥammad 'Alī, styled "Mahābat-Jang" (or better known as 'Alī Wardī Khān), from his birth until the year 1164 A.H., 1750 C.E., when the Marathas were expelled from Balisore and Kattak.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

چهار (یا چار) گلشن Chahār (or Chār) Gulshan, undated copy (original text extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 410
Scope and Contents

A general history and topography of the ṣūbahs of India and the Dakhan (Deccan), composed by Rāi Chaturman (fol. 15), or, with his full name, Chaturman Rāi, a Kāyath of the tribe of Saksīnah, called Rāi-Zādah, and finished in 1173 A.H., 1759-1760 C.E., a week before his death.

Dates: undated copy (original text extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دستور العملِ بادشاهی Dastūr al-‘Amal-i Bādshāhī, undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 224
Scope and Contents

An abridged official manual of the Indian Empire. The original was possibly drawn up in Mughal Emperor ‘Ālamgīr's (r. 1658 to 1707 C.E.) time. It contains an account of the allowances of the officials of various grades, names of Faṣlī months, revenues and area of the Empire, distance from Shāhjahānābād (Dehlī) to various places, and the divisions and revenues of a number of ṣūbahs (see more in Hukk et al catalogue).

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
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دستور العملِ خالصهٔ شريفه وغيره Dastūr al-‘amal-i khāliṣah-i sharīfah, etc., undated

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Identifier: Or Ms 230
Scope and Contents A collection of useful notes on miscellaneous subjects. The contents are briefly:General matters in connection with the administration of the kingdoms of South Asia and Persia. Explanations of terms used to indicate the various officials from the king downwards, their duties, ranks, titles, etc.; brief notes on the geography and history of some of the important provinces adjoining to and including Persia and South Asia; the names of the numerous kings who ruled over those areas,...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

دستور العمل سررشتجات Dastūr al-'amal-i-sarrishtajāt, undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)

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Identifier: Or Ms 83
Scope and Contents

A collection of useful instructions and tables for the education of those who work in the revenue offices. It gives a fair insight into the sort of departmental work carried on during the times of the Mughal sovereignty. Copies of a few farmāns (decrees) and dispatches of the Premiers have also been added. The author is Uday-Chand of Salīmābād (Bengal), who compiled it during the reign of the Emperor Awrangzīb.

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 17th-18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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