Author: Khan, Samsam-ud-Daula Shah Nawaz [ Beveridge, H.; & Prashad, Baini; editors and translators: ]
Title: The Maathir-ul-Umara being Biographies of the Muhammadan and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India..,.Volume II
Description: Calcutta, The Asiatic Society, 1952. boards. 24x16cm,, xxxiv,1127pp,, A small pinhole to half-title. Some foxing to text. Some discoloration to flyleaves.. Recent binder's crude blind cloth-backed boards. Good. ¶ A stain to pages 337-341. Some small wormholes to the corner margins of pages 621-628, affecting three letters from several words on pages 627-628.Spine and rear corner bumps. This is Volume II only of this biographical dictionary of the eastern Timurid empire, covering 'M' ['Madhu Singh Hara'...] through 'Z' ['Zain Khan Koka'] to 'Dh' [Dhakriya Khan Bahadur Hizbar Jang' to 'Dhulqadar Khan Turkaman']+ Appendix. Volume 1 consisted of three double fascicles of 200 pages each published at Calcutta between 1911 and 1914 plus a final fascicle concluding the letter 'L' appearing in 1941. The full title concludes: "...and Hindu Officers of the Timurid Sovereigns of India from 1500 to about 1780 A.D. by Nawwab Samsam-ud-Daula Shah Nawaz Khan and his Son 'Abdul Hayy".

Keywords: Medieval India, Timurids, Tamerlane, Timur History, Medieval History, Biography, Biographical, Dictionary, Persian Literature, India South Asia