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A Bibliography of Mughal India

1939

Neither the original official records of the period nor the works of royal historiographer the Tuzuk-i-Nburi and the Tuzuk-i-Jandngiri the autobiographies of the founder of the Mughal Empire and his great granson form a class by themselves. [...] Climatic conditions the anarchy that followed the disintegration of the Mughal empire in the eighteenth century and the wars of different states with one another did not very much favour the preservation of official records of the Mughal peried in India. [...] They can be more justly described as the 'Minutes of the proceedings of the Mughal Emperor in Court.' The Mughal Emperors maintained a set of Clerks of the Court occupying a position very similar to that of the Clerks of the Privy Council in the Tudor times. [...] Now every sheet used bore at the head the words Akhabiirät-i-Darbär-Mit'alfi then would come down below the day of the week the date and the month of the regnal year of the sovereign. [...] If the Emperor read the prayers for the dead over a corpse the fact was recorded ; if he indulged in the pastime of changing the names of towns and forts it found a place in the records cf the Clerk of the Court.
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Pages
222
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144818
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-viii Ram Sharma view
Frontmatter
i-viii Ram Sharma view
I Original Authorities on Mughal India
1-5 Ram Sharma view
II Official Records
6-26 Ram Sharma view
III Official Histories
27-31 Ram Sharma view
IV Royal Autobiographies
32-34 Ram Sharma view
V Non-Official Histories
35-63 Ram Sharma view
VI Provincial Histories
64-77 Ram Sharma view
VII Biographies and Memoirs
78-88 Ram Sharma view
VIII Gazetteers
89-89 Ram Sharma view
IX Private Letter Books
90-106 Ram Sharma view
X Administrative Manuals
107-128 Ram Sharma view
XI Literary Works
129-134 Ram Sharma view
XII Foreign Writers
135-143 Ram Sharma view
Appendix
144-186 Ram Sharma view
Supplement
187-192 Ram Sharma view
Abbreviations Employed
193-193 Ram Sharma view
Addenda & Corrigenda
194-194 Ram Sharma view
Index of Proper Names Works and Their Authors
195-206 Ram Sharma view

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