Scope and Contents A work complied by Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Dīn, the qāz̤ī of Ahmadabad, and dedicated to Mountstuart Elphinstone as a gift upon his trip to the city on December 22nd,1855 C.E.This is a decorative manuscript, fitting broadly with the characteristics of the muraqqa' (album) genre. The support is paper tinted in bold pink and bound in a concertina-like fashion. The outer margin of each page features text detailing the...

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This work was compiled by 'Alī Naqī Khān, under instructions from the Governor-General of India, to clear up certain complications which had arisen in regard to the disposal of the estate in Oudh in the possession of the descendants of Sayyid Aḥmad Sāndwī.

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A history of the life and reign of Mughal Emperor Jahāngīr (1569-1627).

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The well-known history of the Emperor Akbar the Great, by his favourite Prime Minister and Secretary, Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l " 'Allāmī " b. Shaykh Mubārak Nāgūrī. The author was in his time the most learned and elegant writer in the East.

Scope and Contents The story of the rulers of A‘ẓamgaṛh (a Ta‘alluqah in the United Provinces of India), from the time of Abhman-Singh and Sagar-Rāi, sons of Chand-Sen, of the tribe of Rajpūts and Zamīndārs of Mahnagar (in the parganah of Niẓāmābād), till the death of the Rānī, wife of the Rājah Muḥammad A‘ẓam Khān, and end of the rūj (rule).The work, which in its composition is interspersed with numerous verses, was compiled by Girdhāri (see introduction), a ...

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A brief account of Jahāngīrnagar, or, as it is commonly called, Dacca, in Bengal, from the time of its conquest by Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great (r. 1556-1605 C.E.) to the niẓāmat or governorship of Husayn al-Dīn Khān, about the beginning of Mughal Emperor Shāh-‘Ālam's reign. It is stated that the account for this work has been extracted from the historical works on the great Mughal Emperors.

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A history of the Rohilla-Afghāns from their first settlement in Kāthar to their defeat in 1188 A.H., 1774 C.E., by Shiw-Parshād, who was in the service of Nawwāb Faiz̤-Allāh Khān.

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A general History of India from the earliest times to the reign of Farrukhsiyar. An account of the early Kings of Persia is also included. The author is Lāl-Rām b. Rāi Dūlah-Rām b. Rāi Kunjaman, who compiled it,1148 A.H., 1735 C.E., in the 18th year of Muḥammad-Shāh's reign.

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...