Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s3: 3. Shāh 'Ālam II
Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s3
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3. Shāh 'Ālam II
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It appears that the royal family, after they had been deprived of their valuable library by the rapacity of Nādir, continued collecting books, which, in the reign of Shāh 'Ālam II (1759—1806), served to form a decent library, for it is mentioned in the *'Ibrat-Nāmah* that Ghulām Qādir, the fiend in human shape, who had most wantonly deprived the monarch of his eyes only three days before, went into the Jewel-house and took out a chest and a box of jewels, several copies of the *Qur'ān*
c19.s3.2
and eight large baskets of books out of the Library.¹
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¹ *'Ibrat-Nāmah*, by Faqīr Khairuddīn Muḥammad, Elliot viii, p. 249.
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Ḥasan Razā Khān, the minister of Āṣafud-daulah of Oudh, founded a madrasah at Farrukhābād during Shāh 'Ālam's reign; Maulānā 'Abdul Waḥīd Khairābādī was a professor of that college.²
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² *Tārīkhi-Farrukhābādī*, MS. in ASB, leaf 124.