Agriculture -- India
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Fonds
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.)
Or Ms 144: رسالهٔ زراعت Risālah-i zirā'at, undated
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 144
Scope and Contents
A short treatise on agriculture. In the introduction the author, who does not wish to disclose his name, states that he undertook the work at the desire of some person unnamed, and at the time of writing he was reduced to extreme poverty, so much so that he could not afford to obtain proper paper to write upon. Further, he laments the state of misgovernment into which his country has fallen, and attributes it to the appointment of princes to various provinces, who, entrusting their duties to...
Dates:
undated