Descriptive Catologue of Rajasthani Manuscipts (Part 2)

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Cataloguing of old manuscripts is fascinating to all scholars. This catalogue will be helpful to know India, more so Rajasthan, especially its cultural, social, religious, historical and geographical background. Readers wanting to know the history of Rajasthan, important occurrences during the last four centuries will get enough material from this exhaustive Rajasthani Catalogue. The contents of this Catalogue will be of much help to scholars-readers with regard to a variety of subjects described here in 522 manuscripts.

A.C. Mhamia (Alias: Amboo Sharma); Born 1st November 1934 at Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan); Got distinction marks (76%) in Diigaya at the M.A. Examina- tions of Rajasthan University; Sahitya Ratna; Handled manuscripts since 1947 as a Librarian in Jhunjhunu; Taught Hindi & Rajasthani for 8 years in Rajasthan and 38 years in Gyan Bharati Vidyapith, Kolkata; Was a research- guide at Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad, Kolkata.

He is the author of some books in Rajasthani Language and editor of a number of magazines, especially of NENASI (since 1971).

It gives me great pleasure in presenting to the world of scholars the second part of the Descriptive Catalogue of Rajasthani Manuscripts in the possession of the Asiatic Society. The first part of the catalogue comprising 114 Mss was published in 1957. The present publication i.e., Part II comprises 522 Mss and touches almost the whole gamut of life of the people of Rajasthan during the last several centuries.

Since 1784, the Asiatic Society of Kolkata is the most appreciated scholarly institution throughout the world. Since manuscripts in Rajasthani language are available in abundance in Rajasthan it was a wise step, on the part of the Society to acquire them. This began during the decade of the 19th century.