Later Mughals v2.c22.166

v2.c22.166

Professor Sarkar's History of Aurangzib is based mainly on original contemporary Persian sources, viz., the Mughal State Papers, daily bulletins of the Mughal Court, the records of impartial non-official writers (such as two Persian memoirs by contemporary Hindu writers), the letters of Aurangzib, his father, brothers, sons, grandsons, officers and vassal kings, and other makers of Indian history, revenue returns &c. Most of these are preserved in Persian MSS., for which the author has exhaustively searched Indian and European libraries, viz.,—the British Museum, India Office Library (London), Bodleian (Oxford), Royal Asiatic Society's Library (London), Cambridge University Library, Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), Royal Library (Berlin), Khuda Bakhsh Library (Patna), Asiatic Society's Library (Calcutta), Rampur Nawab's Library, &c.—besides making some important "finds" at Benares, Lucknow and Rampur. He has taken exact photographic copies of these. Of the letters of Aurangzib and his contemporaries, more than 5,000 are in the author's possession. The author has also used the Marathi bakhars and letters and the Assamese buranjis, besides contemporary records in English and modern Gazetteers, maps and works on travel. Classified and descriptive bibliographies are given at the end of volumes II. and III. To be completed in five volumes.