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§ 1529. For the Kalimāt al-ṣādiqīn, completed in 1023/1614 by M. Ṣādiq Kas̲h̲mīrī Hamadānī and dealing with saints buried at Delhi, see no. 1311 supra.

§ 1530. For the Rauḍah i aqṭāb (a chronogram = 1124/1712) of M. Bulāq, which is concerned with Quṭb al-Dīn Bak̲h̲tyār Kākī and some saints buried near him, see no. 1341 supra.

¶ § 1531. For the D̲h̲ikr i jamīʿ i auliyāʾ i Dihlī (a chronogram = 1140/1727–8) of M. Ḥabīb Allāh Akbarābādī, see no. 1349 supra.

§ 1532. Nawwāb Dargāh-Qulī K̲h̲ān Sālār-Jang Muʾtaman al-Daulah [afterwards Muʾtaman al-Mulk] b. K̲h̲ānadān-Qulī K̲h̲ān b. Naurōz-Qulī K̲h̲ān was the great-great-grandson of K̲h̲ānadān-Qulī K̲h̲ān D̲h̲ū ’l-Qadr Turkmān Būrbūr, who settled in India in the reign of S̲h̲āh-Jahān. Born in 1122/1710 at Sangamnēr,¹ at which place his father was for a time Waqāʾiʿ-nigār (K̲h̲izānah p. 222 antepenult.), he entered the service of Nawwāb Niẓām al-Mulk Āṣaf-Jāh and at the age of twenty became one of the Nawwāb’s suite. He accompanied Āṣaf-Jāh to Delhi [in 1150/1737] and while there wrote the Risālah i Sālar-Jang. In the reign of Nawwāb Ṣalābat-Jang [1164–75/1750–62] he was given the rank of S̲h̲as̲h̲-hazārī. the title of Muʾtaman al-Daulah, and the Governorship (Ṣūbah-dārī) of Aurangābād. Nawwāb Niẓām-ʿAlī [1175–1217/1762–1802] promoted him to the rank of Haft-hazārī and conferred upon him the Māhīmarātib and the title of Muʾtaman al-Mulk. In 1179/1765 he was dismissed from the Governorship of Aurangābād, and on 18 Jumādā i 1180/22 October 1766 he died.

(Risālah i Sālār-Jang), or (Ābādī i Dihlī), (beg. Waqtī kih Nawwāb Dargāh-Qulī K̲h̲ān … ba-rafāqat i Nawwāb Niẓām al-Mulk), an account of Delhi, its buildings, pleasure-grounds, festivals, etc., and its contemporary s̲h̲aik̲h̲s, poets, singers, and dancers: Rieu ii 858b (apparently either ah 1192/1778 or 1200/1786), Rehatsek p. 218 no. 11 (ah 1214/1799), Ross and Browne 240 (transcribed from the preceding ms. in 1280/1864).

[K̲h̲izānah i ʿāmirah pp. 221–4; Ḥadīqat al-ʿālam ii p. 283 (summarized in Rieu ii p. 858b).]

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