[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916) › c19.s3.1 # Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s3.1 Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c19.s3.1 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s3.1) 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\* - [Previous: c19.s2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s2.21) - [Next: c19.s3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s3.2) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c19.s3.1) · Pramāṇa