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A translation of the Sëir mutaqherin : or, View of modern times, being an history of India, from the year 1118 to the year 1194 (this year answers to the Christian year 1781-82) of the Hedjrah : containing, in general, the reigns of the seven last emperors of Hindostan, and in particular, an account of the English wars in Bengal / the whole written in Persian by Seid-Gholam-Hosein-Khan.
LIBRA DS468 G4213 1902a v.1-v.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī, 1727 or 1728-
- Standardized Title:
- Siyar al-mutaʼakhkhirīn. English
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- India--History--18th century.
- India.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Sëir mutaqherin
- Place of Publication:
- Calcutta : printed by T.D. Chatterjee, [1902?]
- Notes:
- "Translated by M. Raymond, a French Creole who had assumed the Mahomedan name of Hajee Mustapha. In the year 1789 he published the result of his labours ... under the pseudonym of Nota Manus." -- cf. Pref.
- "It has been shown ... that the first volume of the Siyar ul Mutaakh-khirin consisted of little more than a verbal transcript of the Khulasat ut tavarikh of Munshi Sujan Rae" -- Rieu, Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the British museum (1879) vol. I, p. 231.
- Photocopy. Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Photoduplication Dept., 2003. 28 cm.
- OCLC:
- 63600675
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