The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c24.s8.3

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‘Ālamgīr-nāma. By Mīrzā Muhammad Kāzim. Official history of the first ten years of Aurangzīb’s reign, based upon State records. (*Bibliotheca Indica*.) Maāsir-i-‘Ālamgīrī. By Muhammad Sāqī Musta‘idd Khān. A complete history of Aurangzīb’s reign, based upon state-papers but very condensed, the first ten years being abridged from ‘*Ālamgīr-nāma*. Edited by Ahmad ‘Alī and printed in *Bibliotheca Indica*, 1870–3. ‘Amal-i-Sālih, see chap. VII. Zafar-nāma (also Wāqi‘āt *or* Hālāt)-i-‘Ālamgīrī. By ‘Āqil Khān Rāzī. Covers 1657–63. MSS. O.P.L.,¹ A.S.B.² Tārīkh-i-Shāh Shujā‘ī. By Mīr Muhammad Ma‘sūm (an old servant of Shujā‘). Invaluable for Bengal occurrences; ends abruptly on 18 April, 1660. MSS. I.O.L.,³ O.P.L. Aurang-nāma. A poem by “Haqīrī” (a Roz-bihānī soldier posted in Bengal), often agrees with Ma‘sūm; ends with execution of Dārā. Hyderābād Āsafiya Library MS. (only copy extant). Fathiyya-i-‘ibriyya. By Shihāb-ud-dīn Ahmad (bin Muhammad) Tālish. A diary of Mīr Jumla’s invasion of Kuch Bihār and Assam. Printed in Calcutta, A.H. 1265=A.D. 1848–9. MSS. O.P.L., A.S.B. Abridged in English by Blochmann, *J.A.S.B.* 1872; two sections translated by Jadunāth Sarkār in *J.B. and O.R.S.* “Continuation” (Bodleian MS. 589) gives the history of Bengal from the death of Mīr Jumla to the conquest of Chatgāon (1663–6); ends abruptly. Four long sections of the “Continuation” translated by Jadunāth Sarkār in *J.A.S.B.* 1906 and 1907. Nuskha-i-Dilkushā. By Bhīmsen. Invaluable as an eye-witness of Deccan affairs 1670–1707. Br. Mus. Or. 23. See J. Sarkār’s *Studies in Mughal India* for life of author and analysis of contents. Futūhāt-i-‘Ālamgīrī. By Ishwar Dās (a Nāgar Brāhman of Pattan and a Mughul civil officer in Jodhpur). First-rate authority for events in Rājputāna only. Covers 1657–98. Br. Mus. Add. 23,884 only MS. extant. See J. Sarkār’s *Studies in Mughal India* for life of author and analysis of contents. Waqāi‘. By Ni‘mat Khān ‘Alī. Describes in highly rhetorical prose, interspersed with verse, four episodes of the siege of Golkonda in 1687. Text edited by Scholfield; also lithographed A.H. 1248 and printed (Lucknow) 1259. Mirāt-i-Ahmadī. By ‘Alī Muhammad Khān (the last Mughul *dīwān* of Gujarāt). Completed in 1754, 3 vols. (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series.) Original source only in respect of Gujarāt affairs, the wealth of *farmāns*, etc. quoted *in extenso* and the economic data supplied. From 1730 onwards gives very useful details of political history not to be found elsewhere. First part, ending with 1605, translated as Bird’s *History of Goozerat*; second part summarized in Campbell’s Bombay Gazetteer; third part translated in Gaekwad Series. Akhbārāt-i-darbār-i-mu‘alla. Daily news-letters from the imperial camp. Tod MS. in R.A.S., and the residue in Jaipur State archives. Earlier years of Aurangzīb’s reign very scanty, with a long gap *annis* 23–34; last thirteen years of the reign very copious. Similar *Akhbārāt* of Muhammad A‘zam’s viceroyalty of Gujarāt (*annis* 46–9 of Aurangzīb) and second regnal year of Bahādur Shāh I in R.A.S.; many sheets for 1707–22 in Jaipur State archives; twenty sheets for 1742 in Paris Bib. Nat.; many of Shāh ‘Ālam II in Poona and elsewhere.