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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
( for the English edition)
It gives us really great pleasure to publish this English adaptation of "Sureeshwar ane Samrat," the Gujarati and Hindi edition of which each ran into two editions, which acquired a high place in Gujarati and Hindi literature, for which the best Gujarati and Hindi scholars expressed high opinions, which proved popular and which is considered to be the most authentic work on the history of Akbar. As the English translation of the original Gujarati preface by the author Muniraj Shree Vidyavijayji and of the foreword by the well-known Gujarati scholar Mr. Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi has been given at the beginning of this English edition, nothing remains to be written by us in that connection.
However in regard to this book we have to sincerely thank Mr. Dolarrai Rangildas Mankad, the well-known Gujarati scholar and a Professor at the Sindh College, who has been instrumental in making this English edition see the light of the day. He has taken great pains in epitomizing the original Gujarati book, using full discretion and discrimination in culling important and relevant portions from the bulky Gujarati edition and arranging them so as to produce coherent material that supplies happy reading.
The manuscript of this English adaptation was ready with us for a considerably long time; but in the absence of favourable
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