siar-ul-mutakharin

Updated: May 9, 2025

Captain Grant Duff's research and fairness are beyond all praise, wherever transactions of the Mahrattas are concerned. The sketch of Jat politics is derived from the Siar-ul-Mutakharin and the Tarikh-i-Mozafari; but it is as well to state, once for all that the native chroniclers seldom present anything like complete materials for history.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

"Although," says the author of the Siar-ul-Mutakharin, who is the authority for the story, "there may be no foundation of truth in this account, yet it was at the time as universally believed as that God is our Refuge." The editor of the Calcutta translation of 1789 asserts that he had satisfactory proof of the truth of this story.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

Not only is that indefatigable historian on his strongest ground when describing battles and negotiations of the British from civil and military despatches recorded at the India House, but in treating of the movements of the native powers he has had access to a translation of the very best native work upon the subject the Siar-ul-mutakharin which was written by Ghulam Hossain Khan, a Musalman gentleman of Patna, himself an eye-witness of many of the scenes described.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan