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 31 Jan 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Reign of Alauddin Khilji
Translated from Zia-ud-din Barani's Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi
By A.R.Fuller and A.Khallaque
Published by Pilgrim Publishers, Calcutta - 1960
First published in 1869

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Ziauddin Barani's Tarikh-i-Firuzshahi :

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 29 Jan 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Campaigns of Ala'u'd-din Khilji being the Khaza'inul Futuh (Treasures of Victory) of Hazrat Amir Khusrau of Delhi
Translated into English by Muhammad Habib
And with a historical introduction by S.Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Published by D.B.Taraporewala, Sons & Co., Bombay - 1941... Read More
 29 Jan 2017 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Padumawati of Malik Muhammad Jais
Translated by G.A.Grierson and Mahamahopadhyaya Sudhakara Dvivedi
Published by The Asiatic Society, Calcutta - 1896

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 28 Dec 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun
By William Erskine
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London - 1854
Volume 1

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 28 Dec 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A History of India Under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Baber and Humayun
By William Erskine
Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London - 1854
Volume 2

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 28 Dec 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Mulfuzat Timury or Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Timur
Written in the Jagtay Turky language
Turned into Parsian Abu Talib Hussyny
Translated into English by Major Charles Stewart
Published by J. Murray, London - 1830

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 28 Dec 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
Counterview: Taimur's actions were uniquely horrific in Indian history
A response to a Scroll.in article about Hindutva's distorted reading of medieval Indian history.
by Girish Shahane
Published in Scroll.in, 28 December 2016

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 26 Jul 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The History of Nadir Shah: Formerly Called Thamas Kuli Khan, the Present Emperor of Persia
To which is prefixed - A short history of the Moghol Emperors
By James Fraser
Printed for A. Millar, London - 1742

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 26 Jul 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Digital Book :
NADIR SHAH
By Henry Mortimer Durand
Published by Archibald Constable & Co., London - 1908

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Portrait of Nadir Shah seated on the ground
Oil on canvas, Isfahan, ca. 1740.

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 20 Sep 2015 Article/Essay
Essay:
Indian Elephant Corps under the Ghaznavids
by Syed Jabir Raza
Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Mumbai - 2012

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An Imperial Mughal procession in an extensive landscape
Lucknow, circa 1770
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 26 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
TABAQAT-I-NASIRI
By Minhaj-i-Siraj of Juzjani
Edited by W.Nassau Lees
Printed at College Press, Calcutta - 1864

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 26 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Warriors of the Crescent
By William Henry Davenport
Published by D.Appleton and Co., New York - 1892

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 20 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
Tarikh-i-Sultan Mahmud-i-Ghaznavi, or, The history of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni
By Firishtah, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi
Translated by George Olof Roos-Keppel and Qazi Abdul Ghani Khan and Qazi Mahmud Khan
Printed at The Anglo-Sanskrit Press, Lahore - 1908

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 20 Jul 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Kitab-i-Yamini : Historical memoirs of the Amir Sabaktagín, and the Sultán Mahmúd of Ghazna, early conquerors of Hindustan, and founders of the Ghaznavide dynasty.
Translated from the Persian version of the contemporary Arab chronicle of Al Utbi by the Rev. James Reynolds
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 6 Jul 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
TABAQAT-I-NASIRI
By Minhaj-i-Siraj of Juzjani
Edited by W.Nassau Lees
Printed at College Press, Calcutta - 1864

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 16 Nov 2012 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Relations of Shah Abbas the Great, of Persia, with the Mogul Emperors, Akbar and Jahangir
By Clara Cary Edwards
Source: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 35 (1915)

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 15 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Muhammad Ali Beg - ca. 1631
Inscription: Shabeeh Mohammed Ali Baig Elchi. Amal Hashim

India
Artist: Hashim
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper

Muhammad ‘Ali Beg was the ambassador sent to the Mughal court by Shah Abbas of Iran, arriving in time for the New Year festival in March 1631. He re... Read More
 15 Nov 2012 Rare Paintings
Allegorical representation of Emperor Jahangir and Shah Abbas of Persia from the St. Petersburg Album
ca. 1618; margins 1747–48

Abu'l Hasan b. 1588 or 1589)
Mughal dynasty
Reign of Jahangir

Opaque watercolor, ink, silver and gold on paper
H: 23.8 W: 15.4 cm
India

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 1 Jul 2011
The 'Timur Ruby' necklace
1853
Spinels, diamonds, gold, enamel
50 cm long

The spinels from the Lahore Treasury, 1849; presented to Queen Victoria by the Directors of the East India Company, 1851; the necklace made for Queen Victoria, 1853 (£220 5s. and £131 17s. 6d.; Garrards Royal Ledger, f. 31... Read More