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18. *Fathiyya-i-ibriyya* and its *Continuation*, by Shihab-uddin Talish, (Elliot, vii. 199). The main work deals with Mir Jumla's invasion of Kuch Bihar and Assam, and an abstract of it has been published by Blochmann in *J.A.S.B.*, 1872. I have edited the Persian text (as yet in MS.) on the basis of 4 MSS.—A.S.B. MS. D. 72 and three others in the Khuda Bakhsh Library (one of which was written in England in Mr. Swinton's house by Ihtisham-ud-din, the author of the *Shigarf-namah-i-Vilayet*.) The *Continuation* (Bodleian 589, Sachau and Ethe No. 240) gives the history of Bengal from Mir Jumla's death to the conquest of Chatgaon by Shaista Khan. I have published an abstract of its contents and translations of three long passages of it in *J.A.S.B.*, 1906 and 1907. Fragments of the *Continuation* have been found in the library of Nawab Abdus Salam Khan and (probably) in I.O.L. MS. 1572 (Ethe 344).