Official
history of the first ten
years of Aurangzib's reign, based upon State records.
years of Aurangzib's reign, based upon State records.
Cambridge History of India - v4 - Mugul Period
J.
Latin
text published in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, m, no. 9. 1914.
English translation by J. S. Hoyland, 1922.
Travels of Ralph Fitch (1583-91) and John Mildenhall (1599-1606) in Early
Travels in India. Edited by W. Foster. 1921,
2. MODERN WORKS
BINYON, L. Akbar. 1932.
IRVINE, W. Army of the Indian Moguls. 1903.
MACLAGAN, Sir E. The Jesuits and the Great Mogul. 1932.
MALLESON, G. B. Akbar. (Rulers of India Series. ) 1890.
MODI, J. J. Parsees at the court of Akbar. Bombay, 1903.
MORELAND, W. H. India at the death of Akbar. 1920.
The agrarian system of Moslem India. 1929.
NOER, Count von. Kaiser Akbar. 1880 and 1885.
SMITH, V. A. Akbar the great Moghul. 1917 and 1919. This contains a fullor
bibliography with description of sources.
CHAPTER
VI
JAHANGIR
1. ORIGINAL SOURCES
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri. By Jahangir himself to the seventeenth year of his reign
(1622-3), and continued under his direction to the nineteenth year by
Mu'tamid Khan. Lithographed at 'Aligarh, 1864.
## p. 581 (#621) ############################################
BIBLIOGRAPHY
581
English translation by A. Rogers, edited by H. Beveridge, vols, I (1909)
and 11 (1914).
Iqbal-nama. By Mu'tamid Khan. Persian text in Bibliotheca Indica series. Cal-
cutta, 1865. Partly translated in Elliot and Dowson, vi, 393-438.
Tatimma Waqi'at-i-Jahangiri. By Muhammad Hadi. Partly translated in Elliot
and Dowson, VI, 393-9.
Maasir-i-Jahangiri. By Khvaja Ghairat Khan. Partly translated in Elliot and
Dowson, VI, 442-5.
Intikhab-i-Jahangir Shah. Partly translated in Elliot and Dowson, VI, 447-52.
Shash Fath-i-Kangra. By Muhammad Jalal Tibatiba. Partly translated in Elliot
and Dowson, vi, 518-31.
Maasir-i-Rahimi. By Muhammad 'Abdul-Baqi. Part I printed by Asiatic Society
of Bengal, Calcutta.
Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh. By Sujan Ray. Edited by M. Zafar Hasan and litho-
graphed at Delhi, 1918.
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. By Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan. Printed in Biblio-
theca Indica. Calcutta, 1869.
Baharistan-i-Ghaibi. By Mirza Nathan. Abstract translation by Professor Sri
Ram Sharma, Journal of Indian History, 1932, pp. 334 sqq.
Bir Singh Deo Charitra. By Kesho Das.
The annual Relation of Father Fernao Guerreiro, S. J. for 1607-8. Abstract
translation by H. Hosten, S. J. in Journal of Punjab Historical Society,
VII, 50 .
Early Travels in India (W. Hawkins, 1608-13), W. Finch (1608-11), N. With-
ington (1612-16), T. Coryat (1612-17), E. Terry (1616-19). Edited by W.
Foster. 1921.
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India, 1615-19. Edited by W. Foster. Hakluyt
Society, 1899; revised edition, 1926.
Jahangir's India (The Remonstrantie of F. Pelsaert). Translated from the
Dutch by W. H. Moreland and P. Geyl. Cambridge, 1925.
Letters received by the East India Company from its servants in the Easi,
1602-17. Vols. I to vi, 1896-1902.
English Factories in India. Edited by W. Foster. (1618-21) 1906, (1622-3) 1908,
(1624-9) 1909.
Voyage of Peter Floris to the East Indies (1611-15). Edited by W. H. Moreland.
Hakluyt Society. 1934.
Voyage of Thomas Best (1612-14). Edited by Sir W. Foster. Hakluyt Society.
1934.
2. MODERN WORKS
DE LAET. De Imperio Magno Mogoli, sive India vera, Commentarius ex variis
Auctoribus Congestis. Leyden, 1631. Translated into English by J. S.
Hoyland. Bombay, 1928.
GLADWIN, F. Reign of Jahangir. Calcutta, 1788.
MORFLAND, W. H. From Akbar to Aurangzeb. 1923.
PRASAD, BENI. History of Jahangir, 1922, with a very full bibliography.
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582
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER VII
SHAH JAHAN
1. ORIGINAL SOURCES
Makhzan-i-Afghana, see chap. III.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, see chap. VI.
Maasir-i-Jahangiri, see chap. VI.
Iqbal-nama, see chap. VI.
Padshah-nama. By Mirza Aminai Qazvini.
Padshah-nama. By Jalal-ud-din Tabatabai.
Padshah-nama. By 'Abdul-Hamid Lahauri. Printed in Bibliotheca Indica, 1867.
Padshah-nama. By Muhammad Waris.
Shahajahan-nama. By Muhammad Sadiq.
‘Amal-i-Salih. By Muhammad Salih Kambu. Being printed in Bibliotheca Indica.
Zafar-nama-i-'Alamgiri. By Mir Khan.
English Factories in India, see chap. VII. (1624-9) 1909, (1630-3) 1910, (1634-6)
1911, (1637-41) 1912, (1642-5) 1913, 1646-50) 1914.
The Travels of Peter Mundy. Edited by Sir R. Temple. Hakluyt Society. Vol.
II (1628-34), 1914.
The Travels of Sebastian Manrique (1629-43). Edited by C. E. Luard and Father
H. Hosten, S. J. Hakluyt Society. 1926 and 1927.
2. MODERN WORKS
BANARSI PRASAD SAKSENA. History of Shah Jahan of Dihli. Allahabad, 1932,
with a very full bibliography.
MORELAND, W. H. From Akbar to Aurangzeb, see chap. VI.
CHAPTERS VIII AND X
AURANGZIB
1. PRIMARY SOURCES
PERSIAN
‘Alamgir-nama. By Mirza Muhammad Kazim.
Official history of the first ten
years of Aurangzib's reign, based upon State records. (Bibliotheca Indica. )
Maasir-i-'Alamgiri. By Muhammad Saqi Musta'idd Khan. A complete history
of Aurangzib's reign, based upon state-papers but very condensed, the first
ten years being abridged from 'Alamgir-nama. Edited by Ahmad 'Ali and
printed in Bibliotheca Indica, 1870-3.
‘Amal-i-Salih, see chap. VI.
Zafar-nama (also Waqi'at or Halat) -i-Alamgiri. By 'Aqil Khan Razi. Covers
1657-63. MSS. O. P. L. ,1 A. S. B. 2
Tarikh-i-Shah Shuja'i. By Mir Muhammad Ma'sum (an old servant of Shuja').
Invaluable for Bengal occurrences; ends abruptly on 18 April, 1660. MSS.
I. O. L. ,3 O. P. L.
1 Oriental Public Library (Patna).
2 Asiatic Society of Bengal.
3 India Office Library.
## p. 583 (#623) ############################################
BIBLIOGRAPHY
583
Aurang-nama. A poem by “Haqiri” (a Roz-bihani soldier posted in Bengal),
often agrees with Ma'sum; ends with execution of Dara. Hyderabad Asafiya
Library. MS. (only copy extant).
Fathiyya-i-'ibriyya. By Shihab-ud-din Ahmad (bin Muhammad) Talish. A diary
of Mir Jumla's invasion of Kuch Bihar and Assam. Printed in Calcutta,
A. H. 1265=A. D. 1848-9. MSS. O. P. L. , A. S. B. Abridged in English by Bloch-
mann, J. A. S. B. 1872; two sections translated by Jadunath Sarkar in J. B.
and O. R. S. "Continuation” (Bodleian MS. 589) gives the history of Bengal
from the death of Mir Jumla to the conquest of Chatgaon (1663-6); ends
abruptly. Four long sections of the "Continuation” translated by Jadunath
Sarkar in J. A. S. B. 1906 and 1907.
Nuskha-i-Dilkusha. By Bhimsen. Invaluable as an eye-witness of Deccan
affairs 1670-1707. Br. Mus. Or. 23. See J. Sarkar's Studies in Mughul India
for life of author and analysis of contents.
Futuhat-i-'Alamgiri. By Ishwar Das (a Nagar Brahman of Pattan and a Mughul
civil officer in Jodhpur). First-rate authority for events in Rajputana only.
Covers 1657-98. Br. Mus. Add. 23,884 only MS. extant. See J. Sarkar's
Studies in Mughul India for life of author and analysis of contents.
Waqai'. By Ni'mat Khan 'Ali. Describes in highly rhetorical prose, interspersed
with verse, four episodes of the siege of Golkonda in 1687. Text edited by
Scholfield; also lithographed A. H. 1248 and printed (Lucknow) 1259.
Mirat-i-Ahmadi. By 'Ali Muhammad Khan (the last Mughul diwan of Gujarat).
Completed in 1754, 3 vols. (Gaekwad's Oriental Series. ) Original source
only in respect of Gujarat affairs, the wealth of farmans, etc. quoted in
extenso and the economic data supplied. From 1730 onwards gives very
useful details of political history not to be found elsewhere. First part,
ending with 1605, translated as Bird's History of Goozerat; second part
summarized in Campbell's Bombay Gazetteer; third part translated in
Gaekwad Series.
Akhbarat-i-darbar-i-mu'alla. Daily news-letters from the imperial camp. Tod
MS. in R. A. S. , and the residue in Jaipur State archives. Earlier years of
Aurangzib's reign very scanty, with a long gap annis 23-34; last thirteen
years of the reign very copious. Similar Akhbarat of Muhammad A'zam's
viceroyalty of Gujarat (annis 46-9 of Aurangzib) and second regnal year of
Bahadur Shah I in R. A. S. ; many sheets for 1707-22 in Jaipur State archi-
ves; twenty sheets for 1742 in Paris Bib. Nat. ; many of Shah 'Alam II in
Poona and elsewhere.
Ahkam-i-'Alamgiri. Ascribed to Hamid-ud-din Khan Bahadur, Nim a-
'Alamgir Shahi. Text edited by Jadunath Sarkar (2nd ed. ). English trans-
lation by same, Anecdotes of Aurangzib (2nd ed. ). Very characteristic
anecdotes and caustic remarks and orders of Aurangzib.
Zawabit-i-'Alamgiri. Br. Mus. Or. 1641. The best dastur-ul-'amal (i. e. official
manual, containing statistics, office procedure, administrative regulations
and miscellaneous information regarding the Mughul empire), c. 1689.
Tarikh-i-Ali 'Adil Shah Sam. By Sayyid Nur-ullah. Ends 1667. I. O. L. MS.
3052.
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584
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. By Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan. See chay. vi. 1
Tavarikh-i-Bangala. By Salim-ullah. English translation by F. Gladwin as
Narrative of Transactions in Bengal (Calcutta, 1788), reprint 1918.
LETTERS
The letters of Aurangzib have survived in (a) four compact and clearly defined
collections made by his secretaries and one by a personal attendant, (b) certain
compilations made after his death by selection from various earlier sources, and
(c) stray letters and orders scattered through a large number of other books or
as separate pieces.
Adab-i-'Alamgiri. A collection of fully drafted letters from Aurangzib (1650-8)
written by his first secretary Abu-'l-Fath Qabil Khan (d. May 1662), toge-
ther with (i) Abu-'l-Fath's own letters, (ii) letters written by Sadiq of
Ambala on behalf of Prince Muhammad Akbar, c. 1675-80, and (iii) a
history of the war of succession. Put together in 1704. Excellent O. P. L.
MS. In course of publication, ed. by S. Ashraf Nadavi at Azamgarh.
Ahkam-i-'Alamgiri. By 'Inayat-ullah Khan (Aurangzib's last secretary). Con-
taining a précis of the points which the emperor dictated to his secretary
for inclusion in the letters; covers c. 1700-5. Rampur State Library and
Patna O. P. L. MSS. only copies known.
Kalimat-i-Tayyibat. Compiled by the same 'Inayat-ullah in 1719. Very brief and
obscure précis, overloaded with Arabic texts; covers c. 1699-1704. MSS.
A. S. B. , O. P. L.
Kalimat-i-Aurangzib. By the same 'Inayat-ullah. Same style; covers c. 1703-6.
Complete copy in Rampur State Library; a fragment in I. O. L. 3301, ff.
33a-60b.
There are certain later and shorter collections of Aurangzib's letters,
mostly selected from 'Inayat-ullah and bearing various titles, e. g. Raqain-
i-Karaim (compiled by Sayyid Ashraf Khan Mir Muhammad Husaini bin
‘Abdul Karim), Dastur-ul-famal-i-Agahi and Rumuz-wa-Isharaha-i-
‘Alamgiri (both compiled by Raja Aya Mal, the diwan of Jay Singh Savai,
in 1738 and 1742 respectively). Several letters from these selections con-
stitute the lithographed Ruqʻat-i-Alamgiri. The MSS. are very numerous
and seldom exactly correspond in their contents or titles.
Other letters of Aurangzib are to be found in Jaipur State archives :
Paris Bib. Nat. MS. Persan Suppl.
text published in Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, m, no. 9. 1914.
English translation by J. S. Hoyland, 1922.
Travels of Ralph Fitch (1583-91) and John Mildenhall (1599-1606) in Early
Travels in India. Edited by W. Foster. 1921,
2. MODERN WORKS
BINYON, L. Akbar. 1932.
IRVINE, W. Army of the Indian Moguls. 1903.
MACLAGAN, Sir E. The Jesuits and the Great Mogul. 1932.
MALLESON, G. B. Akbar. (Rulers of India Series. ) 1890.
MODI, J. J. Parsees at the court of Akbar. Bombay, 1903.
MORELAND, W. H. India at the death of Akbar. 1920.
The agrarian system of Moslem India. 1929.
NOER, Count von. Kaiser Akbar. 1880 and 1885.
SMITH, V. A. Akbar the great Moghul. 1917 and 1919. This contains a fullor
bibliography with description of sources.
CHAPTER
VI
JAHANGIR
1. ORIGINAL SOURCES
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri. By Jahangir himself to the seventeenth year of his reign
(1622-3), and continued under his direction to the nineteenth year by
Mu'tamid Khan. Lithographed at 'Aligarh, 1864.
## p. 581 (#621) ############################################
BIBLIOGRAPHY
581
English translation by A. Rogers, edited by H. Beveridge, vols, I (1909)
and 11 (1914).
Iqbal-nama. By Mu'tamid Khan. Persian text in Bibliotheca Indica series. Cal-
cutta, 1865. Partly translated in Elliot and Dowson, vi, 393-438.
Tatimma Waqi'at-i-Jahangiri. By Muhammad Hadi. Partly translated in Elliot
and Dowson, VI, 393-9.
Maasir-i-Jahangiri. By Khvaja Ghairat Khan. Partly translated in Elliot and
Dowson, VI, 442-5.
Intikhab-i-Jahangir Shah. Partly translated in Elliot and Dowson, VI, 447-52.
Shash Fath-i-Kangra. By Muhammad Jalal Tibatiba. Partly translated in Elliot
and Dowson, vi, 518-31.
Maasir-i-Rahimi. By Muhammad 'Abdul-Baqi. Part I printed by Asiatic Society
of Bengal, Calcutta.
Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh. By Sujan Ray. Edited by M. Zafar Hasan and litho-
graphed at Delhi, 1918.
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. By Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan. Printed in Biblio-
theca Indica. Calcutta, 1869.
Baharistan-i-Ghaibi. By Mirza Nathan. Abstract translation by Professor Sri
Ram Sharma, Journal of Indian History, 1932, pp. 334 sqq.
Bir Singh Deo Charitra. By Kesho Das.
The annual Relation of Father Fernao Guerreiro, S. J. for 1607-8. Abstract
translation by H. Hosten, S. J. in Journal of Punjab Historical Society,
VII, 50 .
Early Travels in India (W. Hawkins, 1608-13), W. Finch (1608-11), N. With-
ington (1612-16), T. Coryat (1612-17), E. Terry (1616-19). Edited by W.
Foster. 1921.
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India, 1615-19. Edited by W. Foster. Hakluyt
Society, 1899; revised edition, 1926.
Jahangir's India (The Remonstrantie of F. Pelsaert). Translated from the
Dutch by W. H. Moreland and P. Geyl. Cambridge, 1925.
Letters received by the East India Company from its servants in the Easi,
1602-17. Vols. I to vi, 1896-1902.
English Factories in India. Edited by W. Foster. (1618-21) 1906, (1622-3) 1908,
(1624-9) 1909.
Voyage of Peter Floris to the East Indies (1611-15). Edited by W. H. Moreland.
Hakluyt Society. 1934.
Voyage of Thomas Best (1612-14). Edited by Sir W. Foster. Hakluyt Society.
1934.
2. MODERN WORKS
DE LAET. De Imperio Magno Mogoli, sive India vera, Commentarius ex variis
Auctoribus Congestis. Leyden, 1631. Translated into English by J. S.
Hoyland. Bombay, 1928.
GLADWIN, F. Reign of Jahangir. Calcutta, 1788.
MORFLAND, W. H. From Akbar to Aurangzeb. 1923.
PRASAD, BENI. History of Jahangir, 1922, with a very full bibliography.
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582
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER VII
SHAH JAHAN
1. ORIGINAL SOURCES
Makhzan-i-Afghana, see chap. III.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, see chap. VI.
Maasir-i-Jahangiri, see chap. VI.
Iqbal-nama, see chap. VI.
Padshah-nama. By Mirza Aminai Qazvini.
Padshah-nama. By Jalal-ud-din Tabatabai.
Padshah-nama. By 'Abdul-Hamid Lahauri. Printed in Bibliotheca Indica, 1867.
Padshah-nama. By Muhammad Waris.
Shahajahan-nama. By Muhammad Sadiq.
‘Amal-i-Salih. By Muhammad Salih Kambu. Being printed in Bibliotheca Indica.
Zafar-nama-i-'Alamgiri. By Mir Khan.
English Factories in India, see chap. VII. (1624-9) 1909, (1630-3) 1910, (1634-6)
1911, (1637-41) 1912, (1642-5) 1913, 1646-50) 1914.
The Travels of Peter Mundy. Edited by Sir R. Temple. Hakluyt Society. Vol.
II (1628-34), 1914.
The Travels of Sebastian Manrique (1629-43). Edited by C. E. Luard and Father
H. Hosten, S. J. Hakluyt Society. 1926 and 1927.
2. MODERN WORKS
BANARSI PRASAD SAKSENA. History of Shah Jahan of Dihli. Allahabad, 1932,
with a very full bibliography.
MORELAND, W. H. From Akbar to Aurangzeb, see chap. VI.
CHAPTERS VIII AND X
AURANGZIB
1. PRIMARY SOURCES
PERSIAN
‘Alamgir-nama. By Mirza Muhammad Kazim.
Official history of the first ten
years of Aurangzib's reign, based upon State records. (Bibliotheca Indica. )
Maasir-i-'Alamgiri. By Muhammad Saqi Musta'idd Khan. A complete history
of Aurangzib's reign, based upon state-papers but very condensed, the first
ten years being abridged from 'Alamgir-nama. Edited by Ahmad 'Ali and
printed in Bibliotheca Indica, 1870-3.
‘Amal-i-Salih, see chap. VI.
Zafar-nama (also Waqi'at or Halat) -i-Alamgiri. By 'Aqil Khan Razi. Covers
1657-63. MSS. O. P. L. ,1 A. S. B. 2
Tarikh-i-Shah Shuja'i. By Mir Muhammad Ma'sum (an old servant of Shuja').
Invaluable for Bengal occurrences; ends abruptly on 18 April, 1660. MSS.
I. O. L. ,3 O. P. L.
1 Oriental Public Library (Patna).
2 Asiatic Society of Bengal.
3 India Office Library.
## p. 583 (#623) ############################################
BIBLIOGRAPHY
583
Aurang-nama. A poem by “Haqiri” (a Roz-bihani soldier posted in Bengal),
often agrees with Ma'sum; ends with execution of Dara. Hyderabad Asafiya
Library. MS. (only copy extant).
Fathiyya-i-'ibriyya. By Shihab-ud-din Ahmad (bin Muhammad) Talish. A diary
of Mir Jumla's invasion of Kuch Bihar and Assam. Printed in Calcutta,
A. H. 1265=A. D. 1848-9. MSS. O. P. L. , A. S. B. Abridged in English by Bloch-
mann, J. A. S. B. 1872; two sections translated by Jadunath Sarkar in J. B.
and O. R. S. "Continuation” (Bodleian MS. 589) gives the history of Bengal
from the death of Mir Jumla to the conquest of Chatgaon (1663-6); ends
abruptly. Four long sections of the "Continuation” translated by Jadunath
Sarkar in J. A. S. B. 1906 and 1907.
Nuskha-i-Dilkusha. By Bhimsen. Invaluable as an eye-witness of Deccan
affairs 1670-1707. Br. Mus. Or. 23. See J. Sarkar's Studies in Mughul India
for life of author and analysis of contents.
Futuhat-i-'Alamgiri. By Ishwar Das (a Nagar Brahman of Pattan and a Mughul
civil officer in Jodhpur). First-rate authority for events in Rajputana only.
Covers 1657-98. Br. Mus. Add. 23,884 only MS. extant. See J. Sarkar's
Studies in Mughul India for life of author and analysis of contents.
Waqai'. By Ni'mat Khan 'Ali. Describes in highly rhetorical prose, interspersed
with verse, four episodes of the siege of Golkonda in 1687. Text edited by
Scholfield; also lithographed A. H. 1248 and printed (Lucknow) 1259.
Mirat-i-Ahmadi. By 'Ali Muhammad Khan (the last Mughul diwan of Gujarat).
Completed in 1754, 3 vols. (Gaekwad's Oriental Series. ) Original source
only in respect of Gujarat affairs, the wealth of farmans, etc. quoted in
extenso and the economic data supplied. From 1730 onwards gives very
useful details of political history not to be found elsewhere. First part,
ending with 1605, translated as Bird's History of Goozerat; second part
summarized in Campbell's Bombay Gazetteer; third part translated in
Gaekwad Series.
Akhbarat-i-darbar-i-mu'alla. Daily news-letters from the imperial camp. Tod
MS. in R. A. S. , and the residue in Jaipur State archives. Earlier years of
Aurangzib's reign very scanty, with a long gap annis 23-34; last thirteen
years of the reign very copious. Similar Akhbarat of Muhammad A'zam's
viceroyalty of Gujarat (annis 46-9 of Aurangzib) and second regnal year of
Bahadur Shah I in R. A. S. ; many sheets for 1707-22 in Jaipur State archi-
ves; twenty sheets for 1742 in Paris Bib. Nat. ; many of Shah 'Alam II in
Poona and elsewhere.
Ahkam-i-'Alamgiri. Ascribed to Hamid-ud-din Khan Bahadur, Nim a-
'Alamgir Shahi. Text edited by Jadunath Sarkar (2nd ed. ). English trans-
lation by same, Anecdotes of Aurangzib (2nd ed. ). Very characteristic
anecdotes and caustic remarks and orders of Aurangzib.
Zawabit-i-'Alamgiri. Br. Mus. Or. 1641. The best dastur-ul-'amal (i. e. official
manual, containing statistics, office procedure, administrative regulations
and miscellaneous information regarding the Mughul empire), c. 1689.
Tarikh-i-Ali 'Adil Shah Sam. By Sayyid Nur-ullah. Ends 1667. I. O. L. MS.
3052.
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584
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab. By Muhammad Hashim Khafi Khan. See chay. vi. 1
Tavarikh-i-Bangala. By Salim-ullah. English translation by F. Gladwin as
Narrative of Transactions in Bengal (Calcutta, 1788), reprint 1918.
LETTERS
The letters of Aurangzib have survived in (a) four compact and clearly defined
collections made by his secretaries and one by a personal attendant, (b) certain
compilations made after his death by selection from various earlier sources, and
(c) stray letters and orders scattered through a large number of other books or
as separate pieces.
Adab-i-'Alamgiri. A collection of fully drafted letters from Aurangzib (1650-8)
written by his first secretary Abu-'l-Fath Qabil Khan (d. May 1662), toge-
ther with (i) Abu-'l-Fath's own letters, (ii) letters written by Sadiq of
Ambala on behalf of Prince Muhammad Akbar, c. 1675-80, and (iii) a
history of the war of succession. Put together in 1704. Excellent O. P. L.
MS. In course of publication, ed. by S. Ashraf Nadavi at Azamgarh.
Ahkam-i-'Alamgiri. By 'Inayat-ullah Khan (Aurangzib's last secretary). Con-
taining a précis of the points which the emperor dictated to his secretary
for inclusion in the letters; covers c. 1700-5. Rampur State Library and
Patna O. P. L. MSS. only copies known.
Kalimat-i-Tayyibat. Compiled by the same 'Inayat-ullah in 1719. Very brief and
obscure précis, overloaded with Arabic texts; covers c. 1699-1704. MSS.
A. S. B. , O. P. L.
Kalimat-i-Aurangzib. By the same 'Inayat-ullah. Same style; covers c. 1703-6.
Complete copy in Rampur State Library; a fragment in I. O. L. 3301, ff.
33a-60b.
There are certain later and shorter collections of Aurangzib's letters,
mostly selected from 'Inayat-ullah and bearing various titles, e. g. Raqain-
i-Karaim (compiled by Sayyid Ashraf Khan Mir Muhammad Husaini bin
‘Abdul Karim), Dastur-ul-famal-i-Agahi and Rumuz-wa-Isharaha-i-
‘Alamgiri (both compiled by Raja Aya Mal, the diwan of Jay Singh Savai,
in 1738 and 1742 respectively). Several letters from these selections con-
stitute the lithographed Ruqʻat-i-Alamgiri. The MSS. are very numerous
and seldom exactly correspond in their contents or titles.
Other letters of Aurangzib are to be found in Jaipur State archives :
Paris Bib. Nat. MS. Persan Suppl.
