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II. Frequent eiforts were made to obtain MSS. for tlie wanting portions 

 of Vols. II and III, but without result, when during last year three MSS. 

 unexpectedly turned up in the possession of Maulawi KabirutMin Ahmad, 

 viz. one MS. of Vol. II, and two MSS. of Vol. III. Maulawi 'Abdul 

 Hai is now engaged in preparing Vol. II for press, assisted by the 

 TTsud ulghahali, the Isticih and the Ikmdl, works which much resemble the 

 Igabah. There is, therefore, every hope of completing this important work. 



Peesian. — Mr. Blochmann issued Fasc. XVI. of his quarto text edition 

 of the Ain i Akbari, which completes the geograj)hical index of the work. 

 Fasc. XVII, containing the preface, title, &c., to Vol. I, is about to appear. 



Maulawi Zulfaqar 'All, of the Calcutta Madrasah, has issued two fasci- 

 culi of the FarJiang i JRashidi^ by 'Abdurrashid of Tattah, one of the most 

 critical scholars India has produced. Three-fourths of the dictionary, as far 

 as the letter qaf, have now been issued. 



Maulawi 'Abdurrahim, of the Calcutta Madrasah, has completed his 

 index to Khafi Khan's history, and Maulawi Kabiruddin has issued the 

 concluding pages of the work itself. The Bibliotheca Indica edition of 

 Khafi Khan's Muntakliah ul-Lubdh is, therefore, now complete. The work 

 consists of two volumes. The first contains the reigns of Babar, Humayun, 

 Akbar, Jahangir, and Shahjahan ; and the second contains an account of the 

 reign of Aurangzib (as far as the author had sources to consult), the reigns 

 of Shah 'Alam Bahadur (who is generally but wrongly called in English 

 histories ' Bahadur Shah'), of Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Rafi 'uddarajat, 

 Rafi 'uddaulah, and the beginning of the reign of Muhammad Shah, up to 

 A. H. 1135, or A. D. 1722-23. 



Maulawi 'Abdul Hai has issued an Index of Persons and of geographi- 

 cal names occurring in the ' Alamgirndmah, together with a biographical 

 notice of the author. The text itself was issued in the Bibliotheca Indica in 

 1868. The work contains a history of the first ten years of Aurangzib's 

 reign, i. e. till A. H. 1078, or A. D. 1667, when the emperor forbade his- 

 torians to write the history of his reign. 



Maulawi Agha Ahmad 'Ali completed during last year the Madsir i 

 ^Alamgiri, a history of Aurangzib's reign, written in A. H. 1122, or 

 A. D. 1710, by Muhammad Saqi Musta'idd Khan. The author had 

 been for some time in the service of Bakhtawar Khan, the author of 

 the Mir-dt ul 'Alam, and was through his influence appointed a 

 Waqdi'mgdr, or court-news-writer. He was then put in charge of the 

 emperor's carpet for prayer (jd-namdz), and later he was appointed officer 

 in charge of the household servants. Four years before the emperor's death, 

 he was appointed a secretary of finance (insJid i nazdrat), and his office 

 as news-writer was bestowed upon his son Muhammad Muhsin. Al- 

 though his work is short, it is of the greatest importance, because it 



