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# Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.32

Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.32

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### [c3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.law-1916.c3.32)

Aurangzeb was a patron of Muhammadan learning and a great letter-writer, though such of his letters as I have seen are very uninteresting. His sister Jahān Ārā was an authoress, and wrote a tract about the Ajmere Saint, of which there is a copy in the British Museum. Aurangzeb’s daughter Zebu-n-nisā was a poet, as well as an encourager of learning, and her \*Dīvān\* has lately attracted a good deal of attention.

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