Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c11.s1.14

v1.c11.s1.14

Girdhar Bahādur and Dayā Bahādur and the governorship of Bhavāni-rām (ii. 243-249), because the Persian authorities are silent on the point and I had before me only a rough translation of the Persian correspondence of Girdhar Bahādur’s sons, the *Ajāib-ul-āfāq*, no ms. of which is available in India, so that I could not utilise the dates (if any) given in the original. The Marātha letters printed by Parasnis contain gross errors of date. But the chronology and main features of the history of this period have been correctly established by the recent publication of the State-papers of the Peshwas, *S.P.D.*, xiii. and xxii.