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محمد غلام امام خان (Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan also Hijr bin Muhammad)
– ابن میر داود خان (Ibn Mir Daud Khan), Editor.

Aligarh: رياض هند [Riyadh Hind, circa 1870-1880?]

This monumental work spans 790 pages and consists of two texts by the same author. The first text is “Tārīk̲h̲ i Rashīd al-Dīn K̲h̲ānī,” which provides a history of Hindustan, focusing particularly on central India. The second text, “Tārīk̲h̲-i K̲h̲urshīd Jāhī,” serves as a continuation and describes the history of Muslim rulers in the region from the 12th century onward. This continuation is written in the margins of the first text.

The book includes a variety of charts, transcriptions of documents, and other valuable information, particularly regarding events from the late 18th and 19th centuries, including the rebellion of 1857. It also discusses connections to other regions of India and neighboring countries.

Muhammad Ghulam Imam Khan was a respected Indian scholar whose work received support from the Nizam of Hyderabad. This publication combines two titles into one and was edited by the author’s scholar, Ibn Mir Daud Khan.

We found only one institutional example of this collaborative effort in western libraries. It is located in the University of Wisconsin – Madison Library (OCLC 664270580) and is dated 1903; however, it is unclear whether it is the same edition.