Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s9: 9. Sindh, Kashmīr and Gujrāt

Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c12.s9

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9. Sindh, Kashmīr and Gujrāt

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Of the royal house of Sindh, Shāh Beg Arghūn was exceedingly well read, and is men- tioned by many authors as a great promoter of literature,² while Kashmīr could about 50 years ago boast of its ruler Zainul 'Ābidīn, who had equally encouraged literature and fine arts. Under the latter many treatises on music were written, and a code of laws was framed, engraved on copper-plates, and placed in public markets and halls of justice in order to give it currency.¹

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² Ibid., p. 432.

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¹ *Ferishta* vol. iv, pp. 469, 470; *Ma'āṣiri-Raḥīmī*, MS. in ASB, leaf 59.

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We learn that during Akbar's reign, Ḥusain Khān, Walī of Kashmīr, built madrasahs there, and gave as endowment pergana Āsāpūr (974 A.H., 1567 A.D.).²

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² *Ma'āṣiri-Raḥīmī*, MS. in ASB, leaf 71. N.K.T., p. 363, mentions Ḥusain Chak giving pergana Zainpūr for *madrasah*, etc.

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Muẓaffar Shāh II was a royal Maecenas of Gujrāt. He promoted learning with great zeal, and men of letters from Persia, Arabia and Turkey found it worth while to settle in Gujrāt in his liberal reign.³

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³ *Ferishta* vol. iv, p. 97.