History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v4.c57.1

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The first edition of this Fourth Volume was printed in November 1919, but a revision of it became soon necessary through the acquisition of new materials of great value and variety. Within a month of its publication, Senhor P. S. Pissurlencar, with ungrudging labour and liberality, commenced sending me transcripts from the Portuguese records of Goa, among which he has worked with such tireless industry, scholarly accuracy, and eminent success, and I have been thus supplied in advance with manuscript copies of the mass of papers subsequently published by him as *Portugueses e Maratas*, 2 Vols. These have put an altogether new complexion on the history of Akbar's exile and Shambhuji's activities on the western border. I also secured through the kindness of the India Office, London, the loan of six volumes of Orme MSS., *i.e.*, transcripts of Factory records made by the historian Orme the originals of which have in many cases been lost..