Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c31.5

v2.c31.5

Sarkar's *History of Aurangzib* is based mainly on original contemporary Persian Marathi and European sources, *viz.*, the Mughal State-papers, daily bulletins of the Mughal Court, the records of impartial non-official writers (such as two Persian memoirs by contemporary Hindu writers), the letters of Aurangzib, his father, brothers, sons, grandsons, officers and vassal kings, and other makers of Indian history, revenue returns, *&c.* The fourth volume gives a new and authentic history of the Maratha kings Shivaji & Shambhuji hitherto unknown.