The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)

The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)

Mr. Rogers translated the Memoirs of Jahngr several years ago from the edition which Sayyid Amad printed at Ghazipur in 1863 and at Allyghur in 1864. Orientalists are greatly indebted to the Sayyid for his disinterested labours, but his text seems to have been made from a single and defective MS. and is often incorrect, especially in the case of proper names. I have collated it with the excellent MSS. in the India Office and the British Museum, and have thus been able to make numerous corrections. I have also consulted the MS. in the Library of the R.A.S., but it is not a good one. I have, with Mr. Rogerss permission, revised the translation, and I have added many notes. There is an account of the Memoirs in the sixth volume of Elliot & Dowsons History of India, and there the subject of the various recensions is discussed. There is also a valuable note by Dr. Rieu in his Catalogue of Persian MSS., i, 253. It is there pointed out that there is a manuscript translation of the first nine years of the Memoirs by William Erskine in the British Museum. I have consulted this translation and found it helpful. The MS. is numbered Add. 26,611. The translation is, of course, excellent, and it was made from a good MS. A translation of what Dr. Rieu calls the garbled Memoirs of Jahngr was made by Major David Price and published by the Oriental Translation Committee of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1829. The author of this work is unknown, and its history is an unsolved problem. It is occasionally fuller than the genuine Memoirs, and it contains some picturesque touches, such as the account [viii]of Akbars deathbed. But it is certain that it is, in part at least, a fabrication, and that it contains statements which Jahngr could never have made. Compare, for instance, the account of the death of Sohrb, the son of Mrz Rustam, near the end of Prices translation, pp. 1389, with that given in the genuine Memoirs in the narrative of the fifteenth year of the reign, p. 293, and also in the Iqbl-nma, p. 139. Besides being inaccurate, the garbled or spurious Memoirs are much shorter than the genuine work, and do not go beyond the fifteenth year. Prices translation, too, was made from a single and badly written MS.1 which is now in the R.A.S. library. Dr. Rieu remarks that it is to be regretted that so poor a fabrication as the garbled Memoirs should have been given to the world as a genuine production of Jahngr. This being so, it is appropriate that the present translation of the genuine Memoirs should be published by the Royal Asiatic Society. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53674
Author: Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan
Release Date: Dec 6, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929

Translator: Rogers, Alexander, 1825-1911