Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s2.19

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c19.s2.19

he was seated within the "*Madrasah of Raushan-uddaulah*."¹ However, other writers state that Nādir ordered the massacre of Delhi while he was seated in the *Mosque of Raushanuddaulah*, without referring to the madrasah. Be that as it may, Nādir carried away with him the celebrated Imperial Library of Delhi along with an enormous treasure on his return to Persia. This Library had been preserved by the Mughal Emperors as their most precious possession.² By an irony of fate, some of these valuable books were afterwards sold in Persia at ridiculously low prices.

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