THIS is the name ascribed to a work, of which a few Extracts are given at the close of one of the copies of the twelve-year Memoirs in my possession. The extracts consist of only forty pages, of thirteen lines, and evidently belong to a larger work, because the author speaks of his having related, in another part of the volume, a detailed account of the proceedings of Bikra-májít and of 'Usmán in Bengal; and neither of these passages occurs in these extracts.

It may perhaps be the same work as is mentioned in No. 345 of Sir W. Ouseley's Catalogue, under the name of “Historical Anecdotes of Jahángír;” but neither the name of the compiler nor the nature of the anecdotes is given.

The author of the Intikháb was evidently a contemporary and a companion of Jahángír, for he mentions his visit to Shaikh Dúlá, a religious enthusiast, residing at Síálkot, who had at­tracted the notice of Jahángír, and imposed upon the credulity of the common people, as well as His Majesty, by expending large sums upon the maintenance of beggars, the repairs of mosques and tombs, and the erection of buildings, one of which at “new Gujarát,” in the Panjáb, could not have cost less than 15,000 rupees; and all this without any available sources of supply, for the offerings that were made to him chiefly consisted of raw or refined sugar. In another place the author mentions that when Sháh 'Abbás sent from Isfahán an ambassador with a compli­mentary letter to Jahángír, His Majesty, who was then at Ajmír, was pleased to insert in his reply a verse composed by the author, to the effect that “though the explanation given be not true, yet the probability of it affords pleasure.” But there is no allusion to this in the autobiography of that Emperor.

The work does not appear to be so much a continuous history as a collection of anecdotes, most of them taken from the com­mon histories of Jahángír noticed above; but he gives informa­tion not to be found in those works, and the entire manuscript would be worth recovery.

The author of the Tabakát-i Sháh-Jahání mentions a work written by Shaikh 'Abdu-l Waháb, entitled the Akhlák-i Jahángírí. This may possibly be the work now under notice, for the nature of the stories admits of their being classed under this title. The Shaikh is represented to have been an elegant writer, both in poetry and prose. He died A.H. 1032 (A.D. 1622-3).

[The following Extracts were translated by a munshí, and revised by Sir H. M. Elliot.]