Bahar I Azam Jahi is a

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pilgrimage

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, it is a compilation of various pieces of information by Ghulam Abdul Qadir Nazir.

Azam Jah of the Carnatic Azam Jah (1797 – 12 November 1825) was the Nawab of the Carnatic Sultanate from 1819 to 1825. Azam Jah ascended the throne on the death of his father Azim-ud-Daula in 1819. He ruled for a short period of time and died in 1825. Azam Jah ...

appointed the author to record the events during his

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journey to the

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from

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and return via

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and

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. The pilgrimage was undertaken in 1823, and the author's job was to document everything they came across during their journeys, such as the name of the villages, tombs of saints,

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s, buildings, shops, streams, rivers, tanks, springs, gardens, and even the distance covered every day .

Translation

The book was translated in English in 1950 by S.Muhammad Husayn Nainar. He was a M.A., L.L.B., and Ph.D. and professor and Head of the Department of Urdu, Arabic and Persia at the University of Madras. The book was printed by N. Ramaratnam at the Madras Law Journal Press at Madras.

About Nawab

Ghulam Abdul Qadir Nazir accompanied Nawab Azam Jah who was the eldest son of Azim-ud-Daula. He became the second titular Nawab of the Carnatic in the year 1820, after the death of his father, Nawab Azim-ud-Daula.

Sources

* S. Muhammad Husain Nainar (editor). Sources of the History of the Nawwabs of the Carnatic V. Bahar-i-A'zam-Jahi by Ghulam 'Abdu'l Kadir Nazir. Madras University Islamic Series No. 11. University of Madras, 1950.

References

{{morecat, date=December 2020 Chronicle Books books Nawabs of the Carnatic Pilgrimage accounts Academic staff of the University of Madras 19th-century Persian books

Translation

About Nawab

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