JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



Part I.— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 

 No. II.— 18G7. 



Notes on Sirdjuddaulah and the town of Murshiddhnd, taken from 

 a Persian Manuscript of the Tdrikh i Mancuri. — By II. Blochmann, 

 Esq., M. A. 



[Received 21st December, 1866.] 



About two months ago, a copy of the above work was forwarded to 

 me for examination by the Philological Committee of our Society. 

 The book had only lately been handed over to the Rev. James Long 

 by the Nawab Nazir Sayyidi Diirab 'Ali Khan Bahadur of Murshidabad, 

 for transmission to the Asiatic Society in London. The author is 

 a Shi 'ah of the name of Say y id 'Ali, a friend of the Nawab Nazir, and 

 evidently a man of erudition. He seems also to have received some 

 support and encouragement from Major G-. Hall Macgrigor, C. B., 

 political agent at Murshidabad in 1842. 



The book is dedicated to the Nawab Sayyid Mancur 'All Khan 

 Bahadur Nucrat Jang with the following remark : 



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