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PANDIT RAY NARAYAN (ACTIVE 1856-75)
Siraj al-tavarikh سراج التواریخ (Lamp of History / A History of the Rulers of Awadh)
1875RCIN 1005028
This manuscript, written in the author’s own hand, is a history of the rulers of Awadh up to the British annexation in 1856. The author states that he compiled it from records in the Awadh royal archives in Lucknow and the archives of the East India Company.