Ğulām Husayn “Salīm” Zaydpūrī migrated to Bengal and was employed there as a post-master to the East India Company 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 1787-8. He died in 1817-18. Jump to: navigation, search Bengal, known as Bôngo (Bengali: বঙà§à¦—), Bangla (বাংলা), Bôngodesh (বঙà§à¦—দেশ), or Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ) in Bangla (Bengali), is a region in the northeast of South Asia. ... East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. ... East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. ...
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* His biographical note at the Packard Humanities Institute online, from where this material is taken.
"Riyazu-s-salatin", A History of Bengal, Ghulam Husain Salim (translated from the Persian): viewable online at the Packard Humanities Institute
Written in Persian language by GhulamHusainSalim Zaidpuri, it covers the whole Muslim rule from bakhtiyar's conquest of Nadia in 1204-05 AD to the battle of palashi in 1757, though there are lacunae in various places.
GhulamHusainSalim was a keen student of history, he was conversant with the methodology as known in his time.
GhulamHusainSalim also took considerable pains to decipher inscriptions attached to mosques and other monuments that were nearer to him.
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