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7. Aqil Khan Razi, (life in *Masir-ul-umara*, ii. 821), an old servant of Aurangzib, wrote a short history variously entitled *Zafarnamah-, Wakiat-, Halat-i-Alamgiri*, and *Aurangnamah*. It begins with the invasion of Bijapur in 1657 and ends with the death of Mir Jumla. The author writes with independence and in some cases reveals facts which could not have been pleasing to his master. His style is stiff with rhetoric, and the material portion of his book is really small in extent, though of undoubted value. I have used the A. S. B. MS. D. 239, occasionally comparing it with the Khuda Bakhsh MS. There are several copies of it at Rampur. (See Rieu, pp. 265, 792.)