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The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India:

Awadh and Punjab, 1707-48

Muzaffar Alam Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780198077411 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2013

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077411.001.0001

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THE MAJORITY OF SOURCES USED for this work are unpublished and preserved in different collections of oriental manuscripts. The manuscripts have been identified in the bibliography by their library or catalogue numbers. The documents and administrative records are rarely available in duplicates, but a number of reliable MSS of the other works exist. C. A. Storey has mentioned many of them in his Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. I have noted and described only those MSS which I have consulted or seen for my purpose, indicating, where it was necessary, the MS/MSS I have cited in this work. I have also mentioned if a translation or analysis in English is available in print.

A word is perhaps needed about the historical works of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Many of the authors of these works write about my period from the memory of their childhood days, supporting their accounts from the reports of the actual participants of the events of this period. They also write on the basis of a large number of official and private papers which have not survived. These works, thus, are notable as sources for the study of the eighteenth century history, even if they do not fall strictly under the category of contemporary evidence. For this reason, European works, including reports and travelogues written by Indians in English, are listed in a category separate from modern works.

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