JAMES MILL & H. H. WILSON.—“The Author of the Sëir-Mutaqherin, whom, as better informed, I follow in all affairs relating at the period to the Court of Delhi, &c., &c.,”—The History of British India.

H. G. KEENE, C. I. E.—“This celebrated history is a work of surprising industry and contains many just reflections on the position of the English and the feelings of the people towards them, which are almost as true now as they were when written.”—The Fall of the Moghul Empire.

MAJOR CHARLES STEWART.—“The Sëir-Mutaqherin, by a relation of the Nawab Aly Verdy Khan, was translated by a renegado Frenchman, named Musta­pha, and bears such strong evidence of a literal translation that I did not think it requisite to search for the original.”—The History of Bengal.

GENERAL JOHN BRIGGS (MADRAS ARMY)—“It is written in the style of private memoirs in the most useful and engaging shape which history can assume nor, excepting in the peculiarities which belong to the Muhammadan character and creed, do we perceive throughout its pages any inferiority to the historical memoirs of Europe. The Duc de Sully, Lord Clarendon or Bishop Burnet need not have been ashamed to be the authors of such a production—Preface to Vol. 1 of the Sëir-Mutaqherin.

SIR H. M. ELLIOT, K. C. B.—“The author treats these important subjects with a freedom and with a force, clearness and simplicity of style very unusual in an Asiatic writer, and which justly entitles him to pre-eminence among Muhammadan historians. * * * It has long been a rare book, only to be found here and there in public libraries. It is greatly to be desired that a complete translation of this history should be accessible to the students of Indian history. * * * The work is well-known to English readers from the many quotations and extracts which Mill has made from it in his History of India, and Gholam Hossain is ‘the Musul­man historian of those times’ whom Macaulay has quoted and spoken of with approval in his Essay on Clive.”—The History of India as told by its own Historians.

RAI BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJEE, BAHADUR, C. I. E.—“The materials of this work, which are not to be found in any ordinary history, are borrowed from an English Translation of the Sëir-Mutaqherin. The latter work is very scarce, and is deserving of being reprinted.”—Preface to Chandra-Shekhur.