BAḴTĀVAR KHAN, MOḤAMMAD (1029?-96/1620?-85), historian and official at the court of the Mughal emperor Awrangzēb (1068-1118/1658-1707) and a patron of…

ʿĀLAM II, SHAH, Mughal emperor (1173-1253/1759-1806). Following the assassination of his father, ʿĀlamgīr II, on 4 Jomādā I 1173/24 December…

AḤMAD ʿALĪ HĀŠEMĪ SANDĪLAVĪ, Indo-Persian litterateur, b. 1162/1748-49 in Sandila, a town near Lucknow; d. after 1224/1809. He is remembered…