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The book gives a lively picture of India in the early decades of the 17th century. When Jahangir had written his Memoirs for the first twelve years of his reign, he made them into a volume.

The present book is a translation of the first volume of the Memoirs but the translation of the whole Memoirs, together with the additions of Mu`tamad Khan and Muhammad Hadi had been completed. It is perhaps unnecessary to say anything about the importance of Jahangir`s Memoirs. They give a lively picture of India in the early decades of the seventeenth century and are a valuable supplement to the Akbar Nama.

It also gives an account of Jahangir`s life from his birth upto his accession. Jahangir`s Memoirs are by far the most entertaining as Jahangir himself was a man of strange mixture.

The Memoirs are unique not only from the historical but also from the literary point of view.

The book in two volumes (Bound in one.) is a translation of Babur Padhshah`s Autobiography, made from original Turki text. It truly embodies the career of the founder of the Mughal empire in India. It has the rare distinction of being contemporary with the events it describes. Baburnamah has the complete record of Babur`s life (1493-1529) when Babur ascended the throne at the young age of eleven to September 1529 which he had establisehd himself as a monarch.

What has kept interest in it alive through some four countries is the autobiographic presentation of an arresting personality. its whole manner. style and diction. It reflects the personal quality of its author. With the memoirs of Babur began the tradition of autobiographical writings followed by some of his successors. These memoirs are unique not only from the historical point of view but also from the rich literacy contributions to the oriental languages.

The book - Mogul India (4 volumes in 2) - provides a vivid eye-witness account of Mughal India. The publication of such volumes is essential to the future progress of the study of Indian History and Archaeology. The author, Niccolao Manucci was a native of Venice. Spending as he did a life time in Mughal India, the record of his reminiscences published here cannot but be of the highest value. Catrou, the French historian of the Mughal Empire who wrote in 1705 had access to his original manuscript, written particularly in French, Italian and Portuguese.

Here are materials out of which the history of the development of the social conditions, an account of Hindu religion, manners, customs and description of Muhammadan weddings, funerals and their social norms, the industries and the political relations of the people of India could be reconstructed. The texts to be explored would not mere be histories. They purport to be more of chronicles.

A word now remains to be said about William Irvin (1840-1911) who was responsible for unearthing the Manucci manuscript and bringing to light this valuable historical document in its English version. The volumes will continue through the years to provide a succession of just the sort of books that, as tools to a craftsman, will enable the historian of India.

History of India (in 8 Vols.), by John Dowson

This is an English translation in prose, of the work The Sikandar Nama, E Bara (the Book of Alexander the Great, relating to his adventures as a conqueror by Land) authored by Shaikh Nizami of Ganja, in Persian verses. The Sikandar Nama consists of two distinct parts - the Sikanar Nama, e bara, and the Sikandar Nama, e babri. The latter part is relating to the Adventures of Alexander the Great as a Sage and a Prophet, by Sea.

The present work is the translation of the first part mentioned above, consisting of 72 cantos, totaling to 6866 couplets of Persian verses. The work covers from the birth of Sikandar, his conquests of Zang, Dara, Ajam, Kayan, Arabia, Burda, Ray Khurasan, Hindustan, Chin, Russia, etc., and the Sikandar`s Search for water of life.

The cantos and the couplets in the book are numbered rendering reference easy. The book also contains alternative renderings of passages and copious notes elucidating difficult and obscure points in order to make the reader`s path as smooth and as easy as possible.