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Irvine Collection
Ta'rikh-i 'Imad al-Mulk
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1 copy of Tārīkh-i ʿImād al-Mulk by ʿAbd al-Qādir Khān
Alternative title on title page: Tārīkh-i ʿImād al-Mulk Navvāb-i Kālpī
Author also known by the name of Ghulām Qādir Khān ibn Vāṣil ʿAlī Khān Jāʾisī
Biography of the Amīr al-Umarāʾ ʿImād al-Mulk Ghāzī al-Dīn Khān Fīrūz Jang (d. 1215 / 1800, at Kālpī), vazīr to the Timurid or Mughal emperors, Aḥmad Shāh (r. 1161-7 / 1748-54) and ʿĀlamgīr II (r. 1167-73 / 1754-9)
This work was written at the request of Captain Thirsby or Thoresby (Kaptān Tharsbī Ṣāḥib Bahādur)
Author also wrote a history of Kashmir: Ḥishmat-i Kashmīr (compl. 1245 / 1830)
Not dated
Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from AgraCopied from an original manuscript belonging to the library of
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Inelegant nastaʿlīq
. Scribe: ʿAlī Aṣghar of Bhitrī
Large quantities of William Irvine's notes bound at beginning
Binding
History
Provenance and Acquisition
George Jasper Nicholls, Judge at Benares
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī
1913-08-15
William Irvine
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