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

"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) volume I, page 231. 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.