IO Islamic 4554 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Album of official documents and letters from Mughal, Durrani, Sikh, Qajar, and EIC sources, relating to the diplomatic transactions and the 'Great Game' for British political and territorial domination over Afghanistan, covering the period 1826-38, from the collection of James Lewis Charles Masson

Contains early printed Persian news papers: 1) Zubdat al-akhbār (f. 261, single bifolio), dated Wednesday, 26 Shavvāl 1250/25 February 1835, imprint Agra: articles on Lahore, Multan, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Gwalior, Resident of Delhi, Bahawalpur; 2) Akhbār-i Lūdiyānah (f. 262, single bifolio), dated Saturday, 21 October 1837, no. 147, imprint American Mission Press, Lodiana (Ludhiana): articles on the ruler of Lahore, Kabul, Dera Ismail Khan, Herat, destruction of the Delhi markets, Lucknow, Mewat, Madrassah Lūdiyānah, advertisement

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Seal impressions include: Lord Bentinck Governor-General (‘zubdah-'i nūʾīnān-i ʿaẓīm al-shaʾn mushīr-i khāṣṣ-i Ḥuz̤ūr-i fayz̤ maʿmūr Pādshāh-i kayvān bārgāh-i Ingilistān, Ashraf al-umarāʾ Lārd Viliyam Kavandish Bintink Gavarnar Jinral Bahādur, nāẓim-i aʿẓam-i mamālik-i maḥrūsah-'i sarkār-i Kampanī-'i Angrīz Bahādur mutaʿalluqah-'i kishvar-i Hind, sanah 1834 (?) ʿĪsavī’); Aḥmad Shāh (‘zi nasl-i khāvar az burj-i Asad sulṭān-i jamhūram/chū khvurshīd-i jahān rawshan rā Aḥmad Shāh va Taymūram’); RA (in English) ʿabdahu Rūbīn 1238 (in Persian)… Reuven Atzlan Yitzhak Gabai (in Hebrew); Kaptān Klād Mārtīn Vayd Bahādur 1824; Klād Mārtīn Vayd 1825; Yā Jabbār; ʿAbd al-Samīʿ 1251; Rajab Bayg Qurayshī (?) 1223; Allāh Dād Khān; Rajab ʿAlī 1240; Mīr Ḥamzah 1247; ʿAbd al-Ghiyās̲ 1250; Shāh'zādah Muḥammad Hāshim 1232; Fayz̤ Aḥmad 1239; Āqā Khān 1231; Ghulām Aḥmad; Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ ʿAṭāʾ 1222; Ātmā Rām; Ḥasan Khān; Fayz̤ Ṭalab; Kaptān Bīn/Bayn Bahādur (in English) DDB; Sayyid Ghulām Jīlānī 1251; Sayyid Muḥammad al-Mūsavī 1232; Ḥaydar ʿAlī 1249; Muḥammad Qāsim 1248; Laʿl Sahāy 1887; Yaʿqūb ʿAlī 1229; Ibrāhīm 1222; Yā Raḥīm; Shāh Rukh 1253; Ghulām Muṣṭafá 1241; Mullā Nādir Qāz̤ī-'i Multān 1233; Muḥammad Najīb 1242; Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn 1212; Ḥusayn 1254 (Prophetic hadith)