Later Mughals v1.c4.s7.1

v1.c4.s7.1

The actual writing of Mr. Irvine's History commenced in 1891, and we find him on 19th May 1892 drawing up a "Rough Outline of Headings and Order of Narrative" for the reign of Bahadur Shah, which closely corresponds to Chapter I. as it finally left his hand. In September 1893 he drafted a scheme entitled "Order of work to be done", which includes such items as "Read up for [regnal years] 1-20 of Muhammad Shah— continue narrative down to death of A. K. [Sayyid Abdullah Khan]—provincial history—grandees—geography : take out all names, arrange, identify—biography : do the same—read for completion—read for style—verify quotations—index."