The History of Bahawalpur: With Notices of the Adjacent Countries of Sindh, Afghanistan, Multan ...

· 1848 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1PREFACE.

2TuE Work, of which the following is an abstract,

3is an abbreviation of the family annals of Nawab

4Bahawal Khan. It was abridged at Bahawalpur

5by Peer Ibrahim Khan, the British native agent

6there, at the request of Captain J. D. Cunning-

7ham, an officer of acknowledged merit, and of

8extensive literary acquirements and informa-

9tion, as well as of political experience, and who

10is now our political agent at Bhopal. On his

11appointment to the latter agency in 1846, I

12became aware that he had some valuable Oriental

13MSS. in his possession, and asked him to give

14me some work, in which I might employ my

15leisure hours usefully to myself and to the

16public. He most liberally and readily gave me

17two MSS.; viz. one, the present work, and the

18other a religious book, written by the famous

19Molwee Mohammed Ismael, relating to the pre-

20vailing abuses and proper reform of the Moham-

21medan doctrines in India. I am therefore

22greatly indebted to this officer for the use of

23these manuscripts ; and my most sincere acknow-

24ledgments are due to him. The information