Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c10.36

c10.36

Nawab Shamsu'ul Umara Fakhru'd-dīn Khān Bahādur (b. 1785) was a decendant of Farīdu'd-dīn Mas'ud al-Ajudhani. His grand father migrated to Hyderabad and was appointed an officer under Asaf Jah Nizam, first founder Nizam of Hyderabad (died in 1748). He took interest in propagating western knowledge to India. He wrote two works viz. *Risālah der Bayan i Amal-i Qite*, a treatise on the construction of the sector and *Sham su'l Handasah*, a work on geometry mensuration and trigonometry. The copies of both these manuscripts are available in State Central Library, Hyderabad.