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∗ Shah Alam's expeditions into Bihar, in 1759, 1760 and 1761,—(1) Ghulam Ali's *Muqaddamah-i-Shah Alam namah*, most detailed in names and dates, authentic official history from imperial records. (2) Muna Lal merely copies this book and has no independent value. (3) *TALS* and (4) *DC*., though very brief, are absolutely contemporary, original, and correct, and useful for supplementing G. Ali. (5) *CPC*. i., an invaluable primary source for dates and English movements and policy ; becomes detailed after 1761, but too meagre before. (6) Ironside's *Narrative* of 1760 and 1761, in *Asiatic Annual Register*, vol ii. (1800), "Miscellaneous Tracts," pp. 7-28 and (7) Caillaud's Evidence in the First Report, are first-rate original authorities from the English side. (8) Broome's *History of the Bengal Army* is a very lucid and useful compilation, though requiring correction in the light of the Persian sources not known to him, his sole reliance being on *Siyar*. (9) Jean Law, *Memoire sur l'Empire Mogol*, ed. Martineau, and (10) *Siyar-ul-mutakhkharin* valuable for what the authors personally witnessed,—the former for military operations and the latter for the diplomatic moves and events in and outside Patna; but both were present on the scene for limited periods only. (11)