Firishtah's history of India : Manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Firishtah, Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, author.

Contributor:

National Library of Scotland, owner.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

India, Raj & Empire.

India, Raj & Empire

Language:

English

Persian

Subjects (All):

India--History--1000-1765--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume).

Place of Publication:

[India? : publisher not identified, approximately 1790]

Notes:

AMDigital Reference: NLS MS.3182.

Collection: Yule Collection

Manuscript in a Nasta'liq hand, dated at the end in the 38th year of Shah'Alam (ca. 1790).

After the Introduction (p. 5), the Sections, headed in red, are: 1. Lahore (p. 27); 2. Delhi (p. 90); 3. Deccan (p. 428); 4. Gujarat (p. 798); 5. Malwa (p. 882); 6. Farukhi Sultans (p.943); 7. Bengal (p.961); 8.Sind and Tatta (p. 979); 8 (sic). Jam Sultans of Sind (p. 988); 10. Multan (p. 994); 11. Kashmir (p. 1005); 11 (sic). Malabar (p. 1048); 12. Shaikhs (p. 1055). Conclusion: general remarks on India (p. 1125). On p. 5 is a table of contents, which does not exactly correspond to these sections.Illumination at the beginning (pp. 1-2) and between Parts I and II (pp. 601-2).

The manuscript is paginated in the hand of A. Ramsay. A translation by Ramsay of the beginning of the section on Kashmir, found loose in the volume, has been pasted in at the end (f. i).

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008. Digitized from a copy held by the National Library of Scotland.

Description based on online resource (viewed August 18, 2023).

OCLC:

1394996777

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