Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India Specimens of Calligraphy in the Delhi Museum of Archaeology

It will be seen from the biographical accounts of the calligraphists that most of them were attached to the courts of the Mughal emperors ; but specimens of writing of the princes Wad Shikoh and Shah Shuja` and of Bahadur Shah the last Mughal emperor are perhaps the most interesting being a concrete proof of the fact that the Mughal princes were given a regular training in the art of calligrap [...] He was admitted to the court during the reign of Jahangir and gradually rose to the rank of two thousand and the office of Chief Judge of the whole Mughal empire in India. [...] D.) as the date of the compilation of the Bay?* He is probably the same as Hajji Ismall who was one of the court calligraphists of Aurangzeb wrote jarmems of that emperor and had the title of Rogan Raqam conferred upon him in the year 1096 A. H.5 (1685 A. D.). [...] He held the post of the Superintendent of the royal library and was instructor of the prince Kam Bakhsh the youngest son of Aurangzeb and several other princes of the royal blood. [...] On the last page there is a seal impression of 'Abdu-s-Salam the Munsarim (keeper of the wardrobe) of the emperor 'Alamgir II with an endorsement referring to the entry of the manuscript in the royal wardrobe.