Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s7.24

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high reputation as a centre of learning, and remained so through Jahāngīr’s reign up to the time of Shāh Jahān, who gave it the name of Shīrāzi-Hind. It appears that up to the reign of Muḥammad Shāh, it was the usual practice of Delhi emperors to send *farmans* to the *ḥakīms* of Jaunpūr in order that they might never be amiss in their duties towards the many students and professors in the city. Reports (*Wāqi‘ai-Nigar*)¹ had to be sent to them by the Reporter stationed at Jaunpūr after carefully inquiring into the state of every madrasah. Fresh grants were made if any madrasah appeared from the report to require them. Princes and Amīrs while passing by the city used to pay visits to its madrasahs and make donations to please thereby the Delhi Sulṭāns. About 1147 A.H. (1735 A.D.) Nawāb Sa‘ādat Khān Nishāpūrī was appointed Subādār of Oudh, Benares and Jaunpūr. On one occasion he visited the city but felt insulted for the reason that the learned men of the place did not come to see him. To avenge this wrong, he gave orders for the confiscation of their stipends and *jāgirs*. The orders were carried out, and a bad time set in for Jaunpūr. The students and professors were scattered and the madrasahs became empty.² In 1187 A.H. (1774) Nawāb Āṣafuddaulah, at the instance of Mukhtaruddaulah,