Ğulām Husayn "Salīm" Zaydpūrī was a
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
who migrated to
Bengal
Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...
and was employed there as a postmaster to the
English East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southe ...
serving under
George Udny (a commercial resident of the East India Company). At Udny's request, the author composed a history of Bengal entitled ''
Riyāż al-salātīn'', completed in 1787–88. He died in 1817–18.
References
*Hi
biographical noteat the Packard Humanities Institute online, from where this material is taken.
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18th-century Indian historians
18th-century births
1810s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
18th-century Indian Muslims
British East India Company people