Telangana State Archives is a treasure house of persian manuscripts/paper manuscripts belonging to the 17th and 18th centuries. They throw a graphic pictures of Mughal Administration, Mansabdari System and Military Administration of the Deccan.
I am proud to state that paper manuscripts of Mughal era preserved in the state archives is the largest collection of Mughal paper manuscripts in the country. My self, officer and official took Himalayan task to bring out this volume with meticulous clarity and interest arousing detail. The painstaking and objective research work that has preceded to production of this volume is self-evident. The publication of this volume, the 11th of its series (11th Regnal year of Aurangzeb's reign Volume-VII, Part-I, 1668 is within the scope of the cardinal activities of this archival institution.
I am indebted to Sri Harpreet Singh, IAS, Director General, DR MCR HRD Institute, Hyderabad and Sri B.P. Acharya, IAS, Former Director General, DR MCR HRD Institute, Hyderabad for providing the financial assistance. I am very much thankful to them.
I am thankful to Sri Sandeep Kumar Sultania, IAS, Principal Secretary to Government, Higher Education Department for encouraging and patronising this publication.
I express my thanks to Sri. M.A. Raqeeb, Sri S. Mahesh Reddy, Assistant Directors & Joint Editors and M.A. Moeed (Research Assistant, Persian) for their enthusiasm and hard work during the compilation and proof correction of this volume. I also convey my thanks to Sri C.Srikanth, Superintendent, Publication Branch for his work to bring out the valuable publication in time.
I earnestly hope that this volume would be of interest and use to research scholars and administrators alike.
This volume consists of 1382 documents pertaining to the 11th regnal year of Aurangzeb's reigns Vol-VII, Part-1, 1668 A.D. This volume, no doubt, is a continuation of the earlier tenth part the volume 11th nevertheless, it is completely independent and contains of all the relevant and necessary information. Before elaborating about this catalogue anymore, it seems advisable to introduce the Mughal records/paper manuscripts preserved in this Archives first.
The Telangana State Archives is a treasure house of valuable records, stupendous in sheer number ranging from the Medieval period to the Present day. Particularly noteworthy is the repository of Persian records paper manuscripts one of the richest one can find anywhere.
Amongst the various categories of records preserved in Telangana State Archives, the category of Mughal records is the oldest one. It is true that the category of records Farmans and Sanads of the Deccan Sultans contains still older documents but these are rather a disjointed lot of about 100 individual documents which do not form part of any series. On the other hand, the number of documents in the category of Mughal records is much larger and the documents have link with one another and they are in chronological order, a part of an identifiable series.
These valuable documents became a part of the treasure of this Archives in an interesting manner. In 1916, the then Accountant General of Hyderabad, in one of his tours of inspection discovered that a large number of bundle of old documents have been dumped in one of the halls in the fort of Arak of Aurangabad, in which the Subedari (Regional Commissioner's office) was housed. He took interest in their preservation and reported the matter to the then Head of the Department ic., of Daftar-i-Diwani. Immediately steps were taken to salvage and transfer these records to the Daftar-i-Diwani at Hyderabad, which gradually emerged as the Telangana State Archives.
An examination of these documents shows that the paper used is hand made and is of a strong fabric. That is the ereason why the records are generally in good state of preservation withstanding the inexorable ravages of time. The experts are of the opinion that the records being created now in the country under different agencies may perish after a period of 100 years whereas these archival records have had a much longer life.
Regarding the physical features of these documents, they are written in the Persian language in 'shikasta', script a style of writing. It is very difficult to decipher, these Mughal documents written on Indian hand-made paper of average size of 8" x 4½". The ink used is black indelible Indian ink. The nature of the document is given on the top of it as Siyaha-i-Huzur, Yaddasht-i-Ahkam-i-Muqaddas, Farman, Nishan, Parwana, Dastak, and Parwancha etc.
**Contents and Sample Pages**
Hindu (887)
Agriculture (93)
Ancient (1022)
Archaeology (615)
Architecture (535)
Art & Culture (864)
Biography (598)
Buddhist (545)
Cookery (158)
Emperor & Queen (497)
Islam (235)
Jainism (274)
Literary (876)
Mahatma Gandhi (360)
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