Later Mughals v2.c14.s22.2

v2.c14.s22.2

∗ M. U. ii. 708; K. K. 965. Irvine's account of Gujarat affairs in Muhammad Shah's reign is almost entirely based upon the Mirat-i-Ahmadi of Ali Muhammad Khan, the diwan of the province and an eye-witness of many of them. The information from this source is here and there supplemented by a few details or variants from Khafi Khan and Kamwar Khan, and, more rarely, Khush-hal Chand. Irvine had made his first draft from the works of Khafi Khan and Kamwar, but he afterwards cancelled it in favour of the fuller and more correct narrative given in the Mirat. The text of the last-named history lithographed at Bombay is incomplete and stops with the year 1715 in the governorship of Daud Khan Panni; it is therefore useless for our period. English readers will find an excellent summary of the Mirat account (by Col. Watson) in Bombay Gazetteer, vol. i. pt. i, pp, 295-345. For purely Mahratta affairs, Irvine has relied on Grant Duff, with one or two references to Forrest's Selections. [J. Sarkar.]