Foreword
The Archives have the distinction of preserving the largest number of Mughal records. It is difficult to available such a large quantum of Mughal record in any other State Archives of the country. Among the various categories of records preserved in the Archives, the category of Mughal records is the oldest one It is true that the category of farmans and other documents of the "Deccan Sultans", contains some more older documents but it is a disjointed lot of individual documents which do not form part of any series. On the other hand, the number of documents in the category of Mughal records is much larger and the documents have a link with one another and they are in chronological order. Thus these documents form a series of records. These records pertain to the reign of Shah Jahan and Aurangzebie. 1628-1658 A.D. and 1658-1707 A D. respectively. Though these records throw a flood of light on the graphic picture of Mughal mansabdari system and military administration of the Mughal Deccan, which consisted of four Suba's during the period of Shah Jahan. Six Suba's during the reign of Aurangzeb. A little less than a couple of lakhs of these documents remained locked in the niches of the halls of the Qila-i-Arak of Aurangabad for about two centuries. But these are as good as Governmentally preserved official records, since they remained in Government custody and were never passed into private hands through out this period. These records are perhaps the largest series of Mughal Archives in perfect sequence prescribed in India or else where. These records were transferred to the old records office i.e. Daftar-i-Diwani in 1916. It is a fact that utilization and the preparation of the catalogues of the Mughal documents preserved in AP State Archives will add in great measure to the Research value particularly when the research concerned to the history of the Mughal Deccan. It gives me great pleasure to place before the scholarly world, the work of the compilation of the catalogue of Mughal documents relating to Aurangzeb's period are concerned eight catalogues of these documents have brought out sofar which contain brief English summaries of approximately 32,000 Persian documents have well received among the scholarly world. The present catalogue (Volume-VI, Part-1) comprises of 1865 documents pertaining to later half of the 10th regnal year of Aurangzeb's i e. 1667-1668 A. D In the realm of Indian History, the Mughal Era is a very important and eventful era. Many of the emient historian have described about the Mughal Government is a paper Government, for each and every action was recorded on the paper, Unfortunately a large quantum of Mughal records perished during the past years, owing to the ravages of time and whatever could be salvaged was preserved in Andhra Pradesh State Archives and Research Institue. I would like to place appreciation for the meticulous scholarly skill expanded on the task by Joint Editors Smt. Dr. Zareena Parveen, Deputy Director, and Smt. Atiya Shaheen, Assistant Director (Urdu & Persian) who completed this volume in a scholarly manner. This is an exhaustive reference aid with most of the documentary summary translated into English. I hope that the scholars of medieval Indian History will find it extremely useful in locating the required data and in analyzing the records.
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