History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s6.t1.1

v5.c84.s6.t1.1

Of all the provinces of India, Gujrat possesses the most complete and copious authentic records from ancient times down to the British period. A band of scholars have made much of this material available in English. Two of the longer Persian histories of the province have been translated down to the end of the 16th century by E. C. Bayley and J. Bird. As for the 17th century, we have a summary narrative of the chief events compiled by Col. Watson from the *Mirat-i-Ahmadi*, in the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I, part 1, pages 273-282,* while the mediæval history of the adjoining peninsula of Kathiawad is given in Forbes's *Ras-Mala* from purely Hindu sources. I, therefore, propose to deal here with only the broad features of this province's history during Aurangzib's reign, without going into details.