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A History of India. Muntakhabu-T-Tawarikh

1924

As is well known he was tutored by men like Miyan Hatim of Sambhal who despite being not liberal in the modern sense of the term could very well be said to have possessed sound fund of good-wiil bereft of fanaticism and the ovebearing arrogance of the fanatically learned.' BadNyUnI studied at the feet of the Saikh Mubarak of NAgor the father of Faio and Abul Fazl the gaikh having bden no [...] And in this year His Majesty ordered the institution of branding and muster under the guidance of AahlAz Khan Kamboh the appointment of Karoris in all the territory under control and the reversion at one stroke of all land to Khillsa".6 A close scrutiny of the "something more of his own" which BadAylint has added to in his MuntakhabT-Tawarikh while buttressing the accounts taken from Tärikh-i [...] According to BactayiTini 1 8 the science of history is essentially a lofty science and an elegant branch of learning because it is the fountainhead of the learning of the experienced and the source of the experience of the learned and discriminating and the writers of stories and biographies from the time of Adam to this present time in which we live have completed reliable compositions and comp [...] When one can call to mind one's friends And so make the heart a garden of sweet memories Pity were it to mention one's enemies For that were to quit the sweet garden for the midden.% The holy men by whose noble existence the reign of Akbar 2. abkli was adorned have now for the moat part withdrawn as the `alaqii 5 retires to the mountains of Qaf to the neighbourhood of the Great God. [...] In his last years the intoxication of joy which Ile experienced in his love for God so overpowered him that-to listen but for a short space to the chanting of God's praises Sambhal was then the principal town of the Barkar of the same name in the Filba of Dihli.
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Frontmatter
i-xxiv George Ranking view
Chapter I.
1-108 George Ranking view
Chapter II. An Account of the Learnrd Men Most of Whom the Author has Met or from whom he has Received Instruction
109-223 George Ranking view
Chapter III. An Account of the Physicians of the Reign of the Emperor Akbar
224-238 George Ranking view
Chapter IV. An Account of the Poets of the Reign of the Emperor Akbar
239-538 George Ranking view
Index
539-568 George Ranking view
Errata
569-570 George Ranking view

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