History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v3.c35.2

v3.c35.2

The new materials that have come into my hands between the publication of the second and third editions of this volume are (1) an old Assamese *Buranji*, edited by H. C. Gosvami, (Gauhati, 1922), (2) two MSS. (both incomplete and only partly overlapping) of the letters of Hamid-ud-din, who was originally a servant of the household of Aurangzib's father-in-law, Shah Nawaz Khan, and latterly became a Mughal faujdar in Malwa, (3) the Rajasthani poem *Raj-vilas* by Man, printed by the Nagari Pracharini Sabha, (4) a summary in Hindi of the unpublished Rajput bardic chronicles and traditions relating to the birth and early years of Ajit Singh, prepared for me by Rao Gopal Singh Rathor (the Chief of Kharwa), (5) all the daily bulletins of Aurangzib's Court still preserved at Jaipur, *i.e.*, the residue of what Col. James Tod sent to the Royal Asiatic Society of London, and (6) the Persian letters included in Kaviraj Shyamal Das's Hindi History of Mewar, entitled *Vira-vinod*, 4 vols.