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IO Islamic 4510

Record Id:
032-004341993
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-004341993
MDARK:
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Format:
TEI
Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 4510
Title:
Military History of Tipu Sultan
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
India Office Library
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
estimated 150 ff. approximately
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Urdu
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1798
End Date:
1805
Date Range:
1798-1805
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn
Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000087936565,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/7368495
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India Office Library

IO Islamic 4510

Military History of Tipu Sultan

Contents

1 copy of Fatḥ al-mujāhidīn by Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn

Treatise on military ethics, strategy, and weaponry by Ghulam Muhyiuddin, first bakhshī of the jaysh kachihrah, written in praise and support of his patron, Tipu Sultan of Mysore

This version may differ from the work of the same name and for the same patron by Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Shūstarī

Colophon not dated: written for Mr David Moore by the munshī Mūhan Laʿl of the Barhaman qawm, resident of the Punjab, attending Parsurām Bahādur on the [anti-]Tipu campaign in the Carnatic; completed at TRY KRH

Not foliated; estimated 150 folios approximately

Language(s): Persian & Dakhini Urdu
Title: Fatḥ al-mujāhidīn
Title: فتح المجاهدين
Author: Ghulām Muḥyī al-Dīn غلام محيى الدّين

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: estimated 150 ff. approximately
Dimensions (leaf): 214 × 124 mm.
Dimensions (written):

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1798-1805 18th-19th centuries CE ; India

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