IO Islamic 3817 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Notice on Surat & Autobiography of a Balochi Leader, 2 works
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Collection of two unrelated prose works: 1) a notice on Surat; 2) an autobiography of a Balochi leader
Untitled concise account on the political and military history of the port city of Surat, based on historical sources (for example, the Ṭabaqāt-i Akbarī and the Tārīkh-i Firishtah)
The account extends from the period before the Islamic kingdoms to the port's take over by the British East India Company, on 30 Rajab 1174/7 March 1761
Author not mentioned
Dated colophon (f. 23r): completed Wednesday, salkh (=30) Shaʿbān 1213/6 February 1799
Original folio count (23) below colophon date, written in words and figures in reverse
IOL stamp: 24 Jun. 1912
Untitled autobiographical account by the eighteenth-century Baluchi leader, Ḥājjī Shīr Khān ibn Amīr Ḥasan Khān ibn Amīr Murād ibn Amīr Dūstan Khān ibn Mīr Badr al-Din Khān
The text runs intermittently, interrupted by lacunae, in the sequence: ff. 24v-47v, 48v-68v, 72v-81r, 81v-85v
Not dated
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