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Razmistan

1 copy of Razmistān by Amar Singh "Khvush Dil"

Author: Amar Singh "Khvush Dil" امر سنگه خوش دل

Title: Razmistān

Title: رزمستان

Alternative title stated on title page: Shāh'nāmah-'i Hind

Alternative title: Bazm-i khayāl

Versified (mas̲navī) account imitating Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah, narrating Indian history, especially from the British period

According to the short prose dībāchah, the work was completed at Benares (Varanasi) on 10 Z̲ū al-ḥijjah 1211 / 1797, and written at the request of Mr Alexander Duncan (Mistar Alig Zandar Dankayn Ṣāḥib Muẓaffar Jang), the nāẓim or governor of Benares

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Transcribed by order of G. J. Nicholls, Judge at Farrukhabad, from a manuscript obtained from Agra

Filiation: Copied from a manuscript dated 22 April 1801, copied at Kashi (Benares / Varanasi), by Dawlat Rām for Bābū Manūlāl

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 32 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 254 mm.

Hand(s)

Small and inelegant nastaʿlīq

Additions:

Binding

History

Origin: 1896 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/6 6_30r

Availability

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