IO Islamic 3733 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
Raverty Collection
History of Yusufza'i tribe
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1 copy of Tārīkh-i Ḥāfiẓ Raḥmat Khān by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad Ṣiddīq
Abridged and recast Persian translation of an original Pashtu history of the Yūsufzaʾī tribe of Afghans and their conquest of the Kabul, Bajaur, Swat, Peshawar, and Langarkot districts, begun at the suggestion of Hafiz Rahmat Khan at Pilibhit
The Pashtun historian is identified simply as Khvājū, ‘a celebrated historian and genealogist of "that" time’
The work is divided into 8 majlis
Folio 1r: seal of Muḥammad Ṣibghat Allāh Khān dated 1182/1768-9, with inscriptions dated 1188/1774-5 and 1192/1778
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