[IO Islamic 1718] مسافت شهرهاى هندوستان

Masâfat-i-Shahrhâi Hindûstân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 732 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1718 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Masâfat-i-Shahrhâi Hindûstân (مسافت شهرهاى هندوستان).

Tables showing the distance of the different provinces, districts, and towns of India from one another, according to the statistic survey under the Moghul emperors, especially under Shâhjahân (see fol. 4b sq.). It begins with a short index of the provinces of Îrân. The principal portion of this little book, dealing with India proper, begins on fol. 3b.

This copy was made for Mr. Richard Johnson by Muḥammad Bakhsh, A.H. 1194 (A.D. 1780), at Lucknow.

No. 1718, ff. 28; Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 51/8 in.