The Ms. : بيان حالات منازل كابل از بلدهء شاهجهان آباد is in The India
Office Library [ presently: The British Library ] .
Ms. No. : 2726 ( Ethé ).
No. 396.
ff.: 52. ( Attached to this Diary there are 22 special questions and
answers relating to the same topics, on ff. 29 – 52 ).
Font: Large and clear Nasta’lik [ Nast’aleeqنستعليق [. ( Illuminated
frontispiece ).
Size: 11 inch by 6 1/8 inch.
Details of Ms.: Diary of a journey from Shahjahanabad شَاهِ جهَانْ آباد ] [(
Dihli ) = [ Dehli = [ دهلي to Kabul [ كابل ] in A.H. 1211 / 1212 = A.D.
1796 / 1798, undertaken by Shaikh Rahm ‘Ali [ رحم علي ] for the East India
Company, in order to ascertain the different stations on the road and the
of things in the territory of the Amir = Wali = Shah [ أمير = والي = شاه ]
of Kabul, [ كابل ] his army, his generals, officials, etc. His dispatches
were sent to one of the officials of the East India Company,
Bahadur ‘Abdulkadir Khan, [Khan Bahadu ‘Abdul Qaadir Khan [ خان بهادر عبد
القادر خان who revised and edited this Diary, which contains the
description of 75 Manazils [ منازل ] = stations between Dihli [ Dehli = [
دهلي and Kabul[ كابل ] .
Bahadur ‘Abdulkadir Khan [ Khan Bahadur ‘Abdul Qaadir Khan [ خان بهادر عبد
القادر خان appears to be identical with the author of the حشمت كشمير (
A.H.1245 = A.d.1829/1830 ) who was staying [ in the ] A.H. 1212 with John
Lumsden in Lucknow .[ لكهنؤ ]
Beginning ( on fol. 1b ) :
بعد از حمد شاهنشاهي كه اقاليم حدوث اما بعد كمترين ملازمان سركار فيض آثار كمبني
( باء فارسي ) انكريز ( كاف فارسي ) بهادر عبد القادر خان كذارش ( كاف فارسي )
مينمايد كه در شهر الخ .
Ref:
Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts In The Library Of The India Office (
1903 ) By: Hermann Ethé. ( Vol 1 : p 1479 ) .
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