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Publisher: Andhra Pradesh State Archives And Research Institute, Hyderabad |
| Author A. L. Kismat Kumar | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 169 | |
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| Edition: 2007 | |
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The
Archives have the distinction of preserving the largest number of Mughal
records. It is difficult to available such a large quantum of Mughal record in
any other State Archives of the country. Among the various categories of
records preserved in the Archives, the category of Mughal records is the oldest
one It is true that the category of farmans and other documents of the
"Deccan Sultans", contains some more older documents but it is a
disjointed lot of individual documents which do not form part of any series. On
the other hand, the number of documents in the category of Mughal records is
much larger and the documents have a link with one another and they are in
chronological order. Thus these documents form a series of records. These
records pertain to the reign of Shah Jahan and Aurangzebie. 1628-1658 A.D. and
1658-1707 A D. respectively. Though these records throw a flood of light on the
graphic picture of Mughal mansabdari system and military administration of the
Mughal Deccan, which consisted of four Suba's during the period of Shah Jahan.
Six Suba's during the reign of Aurangzeb. A little less than a couple of lakhs
of these documents remained locked in the niches of the halls of the
Qila-i-Arak of Aurangabad for about two centuries. But these are as good as
Governmentally preserved official records, since they remained in Government
custody and were never passed into private hands through out this period. These
records are perhaps the largest series of Mughal Archives in perfect sequence
prescribed in India or else where. These records were transferred to the old
records office i.e. Daftar-i-Diwani in 1916. It is a fact that utilization and
the preparation of the catalogues of the Mughal documents preserved in AP State
Archives will add in great measure to the Research value particularly when the
research concerned to the history of the Mughal Deccan. It gives me great
pleasure to place before the scholarly world, the work of the compilation of
the catalogue of Mughal documents relating to Aurangzeb's period are concerned
eight catalogues of these documents have brought out sofar which contain brief
English summaries of approximately 32,000 Persian documents have well received
among the scholarly world. The present catalogue (Volume-VI, Part-1) comprises
of 1865 documents pertaining to later half of the 10th regnal year of
Aurangzeb's i e. 1667-1668 A. D In the realm of Indian History, the Mughal Era
is a very important and eventful era. Many of the emient historian have
described about the Mughal Government is a paper Government, for each and every
action was recorded on the paper, Unfortunately a large quantum of Mughal
records perished during the past years, owing to the ravages of time and
whatever could be salvaged was preserved in Andhra Pradesh State Archives and
Research Institue. I would like to place appreciation for the meticulous
scholarly skill expanded on the task by Joint Editors Smt. Dr. Zareena Parveen,
Deputy Director, and Smt. Atiya Shaheen, Assistant Director (Urdu &
Persian) who completed this volume in a scholarly manner. This is an exhaustive
reference aid with most of the documentary summary translated into English. I
hope that the scholars of medieval Indian History will find it extremely useful
in locating the required data and in analyzing the records.
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