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"G.R.Parihar, Marwar and the Marathas (1724-1843 A.D.), Hindi Sahitya Mandir, Jodhpur 1965, pp.238-42. See also, V.S. Bhatnagar, Life and Times of Sawai Jai Singh, 1688-1743, Impex India, Delhi 1974, pp. 357-58; G.H. Ojha, Pratapgarh Rajya ka Itihas, Rajasthani Granthagar, Jodhpur, Reprint 2000, p.394.
Nigam, op.cit., p. 18. In January 1789, Mirza Ali Bakht Bahadur also visited Ajmer which was at that time in possession of Maharaja Bijay Singh of Marwar. He observes that Bijay Singh had made elaborate and expensive arrangements for the upkeep of the Dargah of Khwaja Muin-ud-din Chisti. Cf Nigam, op. cit., p. 17.
24 Shaukat Ali Khan, op.cit. pp.4-5. The publication of the correspondence of J. Browne in English is useful for gathering information about the Mughal Court for the later part of the 18th century. Cf. K.D. Bhargava (ed.), Browne Correspondence, National Archives of India, New Delhi, 1960.
Shaukat Ali Khan, op. cit., p.5.
26 See. G.H. Ojha's History of Bikaner, Vol.II, for the military expedition of George Thomas in Bikaner State. Hanuman Sharma's book on Ilistory of Jaipur informs about the battle of Fatehgarh fought by George Thomas in Shekhawati. See also, V.K. Vashishtha. "Battle of Fatehgarh and the period of crisis for Feudal System in the Jaipur State, 1799", (in Hindi), Sodh Sadhana, Year 8, Issue No. 14, 1999, Shri Natnagar Sodha Sansthan, Sitamau, pp.67-96.
"William Franklin. (Compl.), Military Memoirs of George Thomas, Calcutta 1803, p.217. For reflections of George Thomas on the social life of Rajasthan in the later part of the eighteenth century. See V.K. Vashishtha. "Travellers' Account as a source for the social History of Rajasthan (From the Middle of the seventeenth to the early part of the Nineteenth Century)", in Sources of Socio-Economic history of Rajasthan and Malwa (1700-1900 A.D.). in N.S. Bhati (ed.), Maharaja Man Singh Pustak Prakash, Jodhpur 1989, pp. 78-90.
Ibid.
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K.R. Qanungo. "Amirnama or Memoirs of Amir Khan by Busawan Lal", in Historical Essays, Agra 1968. pp. 103-113.
Busawan Lal (complied in Persian), Memoirs of the Pathan Soldier of Fortune the Nawab Ameer-Ood-Doulah Mohammad Ameer Khan, tr. by Henry T. Prinsep. Military Orphan Press, Calcutta, 1832, p.iii. See also, V.K. Vashishtha, Rajputana Agency, 1832-1858, Aalekh Publisher, Jaipur 1978, p.37.
Vashishtha, op.cit., p.37.
"The Ms. copy of Tawarikh-i-Bharatpur is preserved in the Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library, Patna. Ms No.602. Cf. Sharif Husain Qasemi, "Persian Chronicles in the Nineteenth Century", in Muzaffar Alam, et al (ed.), The Making of Indian Persian Culture, Manohar, New Delhi 2000, p.410.
"Ibid., pp.411-12.
"B.D. Sharma, "Writers in Urdu on History of Rajasthan", in Sharma and Bhatnagar, op.cit., pp. 119-123. See also. Shaukat Ali Khan, op.cit., pp.41-68.
For details see, V.K. Vashishtha. "Anglo-Mughal Scramble for Royal Prerogatives in the Princely States of Rajputana during the early Nineteenth Century". The Indian Historical Review, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi, Vol. XXV, No. 1 (July 1998), pp. 72-82.
On the demise of Nawab Amir Khan on 29 September 1834, the Governor-General discouraged the Mughal Emperor to send a Khillat of condolence to his son and successor Muhammad Wazir Khan Bahadur with the objective to prevent him to maintain relations with the State of Tonk. Cf. F.No. 1 - Tonk. 1834-35, Pt. I, Rajputana Agency Records, National Archives of India, New Delhi.
Foreign and Political Despatch to the Court of Directors, 9 October 1830, No. 17. Quoted from G.C. Verma. Modern Education: Its Growth and Development in Rajasthan, 1818-1983, Publication Scheme, Jaipur 1984, p. 106.
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Raghubir Sinh, Purva Adhunik Rajasthan (1527-1947), Panchshseel Prakashan, Jaipur 1990, p. 171. Ibid.
Verma, op.cit., pp.47-53, 106, 117.
It was introduced in the Jaipur Maharaja College in 1849. C. Shaukat Ali Khan, op. cit., p.47.
4 Report on the Political Administration of Rajpootana for the years 1865-6 and 1866-7, Part II, Printed at the Exchange Press, Bombay, 1867, p. 188.
Ibid., p. 197.
Ibid.
