A rare and important Persian historical source MIRĀT-E-DAULAT-E-ABBASI by Lala Daulat Rai Gehī is first political history of Bahawalpur State. It was written on the wish of Navvab Muḥammad Bahawal Khan II. The book covers history of erstwhile Bahawalpur State, people, works and important events of the period of the said Navvab. It is commonly believed that this book is the first available historical and important document on that period. The article briefly introduces this rare document MIRĀT-I DAULAT-I ABBASI on the History of Bahawalpur.

(1)     Riue, Charles, London: Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1986, v.3, part:1, p.951.

(2)     Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:1, p.7.

(3)     Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsia, (Dehli: Muḥammad Ḥussain Printer & Publisher,1850), part: 1-2, p.220.

(4)     Fehrist-i Kutub Khāna-i Aāliya, (Bahawalpur, Sadiq al-Anāwr Press, 1905), p.40.

(5)     Riue, Charles, Catalouge of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Musuem, p.951.

(6)     Storey, C.A, Persian Literature, (London, 1970), v.3, part:1, p.650.

(7)     ibid, p.650.

(8)     Fehrist-i Kutub Khāna-i Aālia, p.40.

(9)     Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:1, p.221.

(10)   Storey, C.A (1970), Persian Literature, v.3, part:1, p.650.

(11)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsia, p.137.

(12)   Murād Shah Gardezī, Tārīkh-i Murād, MS., v.4, p.4.

(13)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:2, p.329.

(14)   ‘Aaẑam Bahawlpuri, Maulavi Muḥammad (1938), Javāhir-i Abbāsiya, MS., Lahore Museum, pp.178-150.

(15)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsia, p.468.

(16) ‘Aaẑam Bahawlpuri, Maulavi Muḥammad, Javāhir-i Abbāsiya, p. 237.

(17)   For detail: Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part: 2, pp.328-330.

(18)   Storey, C.A, Persian Literature, v.1, part:1, pp. 59-60.

(19)   ‘Abdullah, Sayyid , Adabiyāt-i Fārsi meṉ Ḥinḏūoṉ ka Ḥissā, Majlis-i Tarraqi-i Adab, Lahore, p.200.

(20)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, p.4.

(21)   ibid, p.325.

(22)   ibid, pp.68-69.

(23)   ‘Aaẑam Bahawlpuri, Maulavi Muḥammad, Javāhir-i Abbāsiya, p.241

(24) ‘Azīz, Azīiz al-Raḥmān “Baha Iqbal-o-Parī Chehrak’’, Al-Aziz (Bahawalpur: Monthly, May 1942), p.28

(25) ‘Aazam Bahawlpuri, Maulavi Muḥammad, Javāhir-i Abbāsiya, p.200

(26)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:1, pp.5-6.

(27)   ibid, p.332.

(28)   ibid, p. 332.

(29)   ibid, p. 17.

(30)   ibid, p.8.

(31)   ibid, p.10.

(32)   ibid, part: 2, p.10.

(33)   ibid, p.333.

(34)   ibid, p.334.

(35)   ibid, pp.161-162.

(36)   ibid, part: 1, p.7.

(37)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Dolat-i Abbāsia, p.128.

(38)   ibid, p.151.

(39)   ibid, p.157.

(40)   ibid, p.138.

(41)   ibid, pp. 259,256,242.

(42)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Dolat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:2, p.224.

(43)   ibid, p.213.

(44)   ibid, MS., part:1, p. 213.

(45)   ibid, p. 5.

(46)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsia, p.474.

(47)   ibid, p.262.

(48)   ibid, pp.232, 308.

(49)   ibid, pp. 209, 272.

(50)   ibid, p. 246.

(51)   ibid, p. 285.

(52)   ibid, p. 240.

(53)   ibid, p. 325.

(54)   ibid, p. 474.

(55)   Daulat Rai, Lala, Mir’āt-i Daulat-i Abbāsi, MS., part:1, p.10.

(56)   Muḥammad Dīn, Malik, Gazetteer of Bahawalpur State, 1904, trans. Yasir Javād, (Lahore: Al-Faisal, 2013), p.75.

(57)   Shahamat ‘Ali, (1948), The History of Bahawalpur State, James Madden, 8, Leaden Hall Street, London.

          Reprinted by Sang-i Meel Publications, Lahore, 2012.

(58)   ibid.