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Sources.—This work represents the first attempt to write a critical and scientific history of India during Aurangzib's long reign (1658-1707). All previous accounts of Aurangzib in English are based upon the works of the Seventeenth century European travellers, Bernier and Manucci, who had little access to the makers of Indian history, knew Persian (the literary language of the time) but imperfectly, did not use any contemporary written records, and merely repeated the bazar gossip,—or upon Khafi Khan's history written 115 years after the birth of Aurangzib and avowedly compiled from earlier works.