IO Islamic 4085 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Letter in Persian addressed to munshī Dā[t]ā Rām Kawl from munshī Gangā Bishan Kawl on the gifting of a manuscript of the Kitāb-i Dabistān, which is praised here

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Brief, yet valuable prose and verse account of the author’s travels across northern India (Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi states), with interesting details on local epigraphy and descriptions of monuments, gardens, pilgrimage sites, and local history

Account additionally contains autobiographical details, descriptions of élite jāgīrs, and the conventions of royal titles

Not dated, but the latest entries and a terminating chronogram state the dates 1851 and 1850, respectively

Account of the meeting with the unnamed (Marquess of Dalhousie) Governor-General’s on 7 November 1849 with Rājah Nihāl Singh Bahādur Ahlūvāliyah, with lists of those present, their presentational gifts, and the grant to each presenter of a ceremonial khilʿat

The account reproduced (naql) here is attributed to the raja’s secretary, who is not identified by name

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Account in antiphonal dialogue of Lachhman’s questions addressed to Rāmchandar on the nature of reality

The author begins by describing how he listened to the whole of the Ramayan from a certain Paramhans Anīm Ānand and was inspired to write a summary translation in Persian. This was completed in two weeks and checked by the Paramhans

The purpose of the text is for the contemplation of the sālikān-i īn ṭarīq or followers of this path

Title written in Devenagari

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Concludes with a quotation attributed to Mawlānā Rūmī: ‘hast bī rangī uṣūl-i ranghā’

Collection of the private letters addressed to the compiler, Munshī Gangā Bishan "Fikrat", from Bābū Shīv Prashād, nabīrah (son’s son) of the late Rājah Dālchand, the sar'rishtah'dār of the Superintendent’s Office, Shimla

The letters share the theme of discussions on ethics, comparative religion, and Sanskrit mantras

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Folios 101-2 left blank

Untitled treatise on attributes pertaining to divinity, apparently in accordance with Indic thought

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Notes at end (f. 106v) relating to 1) the Sophist school of philosophy; 2) Mawlānā Rūmī; 3) a philosophical dispute between Shaykh Akbar and Mawlānā Rūmī related in a work by Shaykh Muḥammad Lāhawrī