The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c24.s8.83

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Bahādur Shāh-nāma. By Dānishmand Khān (Ni‘mat Khān ‘Alī). Covering 1707–9. I.O.L.¹ MS. Ethé 385. Muntakhab-ul-Lubāb, see chap. vi. Nuskha-i-Dilkushā, see chap. viii. Maāsir-ul Umarā, see chap. viii. Tazkira or Tārīkh. By Irādat Khān (Mīrzā Mubārak-ullah). Covering 1707–13. I.O.L. MS. Ethé 389. English translation by Jonathan Scott as *Memoirs of Eradut Khan* in vol. ii of his translation of Firishta, 1794. A‘zam-ul-harb. By Kām Rāj. 1707 only. Br. Mus. Or. 1899. ‘Ibrat-nāma. By Kām Rāj. 1707–19. I.O.L. MS. Ethé 391. ‘Ibrat-nāma. By Muhammad Harīsī, Mīrzā. Ends 1721. I.O.L. MS. 50. ‘Ibrat-nāma. By Muhammad Qāsim Lāhaurī. *c.* 1721. I.O.L. MS. 194, Lahore Public Library. Tārīkh-i-Farrukh-siyar. By Muhammad Ihsān Ījād. Br. Mus. Or. 25. Mirāt-i-Wāridāt. By Muhammad Shafī‘ Wārid. Ends 1734. Br. Mus. 6579, O.P.L.² MS. Tazkirat-us-salātīn-i-Chaghtaia. By Muhammad Hādī Kāmwār Khān. Ends 1724. MS. O.P.L., I.O.L., Br. Mus. Tārīkh-i-Hind. By Rustam ‘Alī. Ends 1736. Br. Mus. Or. 1628. Tazkirat-ul-mulūk. By Yahya Khān. 1712–36. Very brief for the later Moghul emperors. I.O.L. MS. 1149. Dastūr-ul-inshā (*c.* 1757). By Yār Muhammad. Printed Calcutta, A.H. 1253. Jang-nāma of Farrukh-siyar and Jahāndār Shāh. By Ni‘mat Khān ‘Alī. Translated by W. Irvine, *J.A.S.B.* 1900. Nādir-uz-Zamānī. By Khush-hāl Chand. Vol. I (1679–1719) (mostly a compilation). Lahore Public Library. Ahwāl-ul-Khawāqīn. By Muhammad Qāsim. Br. Mus. Add. 26,244. Vol. I (1707–19), vol. II (1719–38). Muntakhab-ut-Tavārīkh. By Jagjīvan Dās. Written in 1708; gives useful statistics of all the *sūbas* in 1707. Br. Mus. Add. 26,253. Chahār Gulshan. By Chatarman, Rāj. Gives useful statistics. Partly translated in Jadunāth Sarkār’s *India of Aurangzīb* (1901). I.O.L. and O.P.L. MSS. Jaipur State Records. A very large mass of Persian *farmāns*, *hasb-ul-hukms*, *parwānas*, news-letters, *vakīls’* reports and business papers of the period 1707–*c.* 1723. The imperial letters have been preserved with their seals and silk bags (*Kharītas*) intact (except for a slit), and the ordinary letters with their (open) paper envelopes and belts. A unique collection.