In Volume 1-1: Qurʾānic Literature, History, and Biography | Section 2, History, Biography, etc.
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§ 900. Lālah Gōkul C̲h̲and was private secretary to Zēb al-Nisā’ Bēgam, better known as Bēgam Samrū,1 who succeeded her husband, the adventurer Walter Reinhardt, as jāgīrdār of Sard’hǎnah2 in 1778, became prominent in the events of S̲h̲āh-ʿĀlam’s reign and died in 1836. A prose history of Zēb al-Nisāʾ by Muns̲h̲ī Jai-Sing’h Rāy having been lost, Gōkul C̲h̲and was asked to write one in verse.
- Zēb al-tawārīk̲h̲, a metrical life of Bēgam Samrū, composed in 1822: Rieu ii 724a (ad 1822).
It is not clear whether Lindesiana p. 224 no. 779 (Tārīk̲h̲ i Bēgam Samrū. ad 1841) is a copy of this or of a different work.
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Notes
^ Back to text1. For her life see Brajendranath Banerji Begam Samru (Calcutta 1925), which contains a good bibliography, Severin Noti Das Fürstentum Sardhana (Freiburg i. Br. 1906), H.G. Keene in the Calcutta Review for 1880, etc.
^ Back to text2. Sardhǎnah is 12 miles N.W. of Meerut.
