IO Islamic 4048 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Collected works of an unidentified nineteenth-century poet, possibly from Bengal, but not to be confused with the seventeenth-century poet, translator, administrator and Vedantist philosopher, Munshīʾ Chandarbhān Lāhawrī "Barhaman," the rāy-rāyān of Mughal Emperor Shāh Jahān I (d. 1666) and assistant to Prince Dārā Shukūh (d. 1659)

Work lacks additional conventional or contextual information, such as a title, preface, or colophon. However, there are references to the Bengali faṣlī dates 1244 / 1828-9 and 1253 / 1837-8, to Calcutta (Kolkata), and to a certain European name M-G-Ā-T-N, which Storey reads as Macnaughten (Sir William Macnaughten, d. 1841)

Consists of ghazalīyāt, rubāʿīyāt, tarkīb band, tawshīḥāt, tavārīkh, dū abyāt, and mutafarriqah (afrād, abyāt)

Mutafarriqah section is prefixed with an interesting statement denouncing a certain Munnū Lāl (f. 128r), a former pupil of the poet

Not dated