AUTHOR OF THE FALL OF THE MOGHUL EMPIRE," ETC. FIFTH EDITION. Calcutta: THACKER, SPINK AND CO.. LONDON: W. THACKER & Co. 1888. [All rights reserved.] WARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GRATIS 1944 Ind 7801. 5.7 PRINTED BY THACKER, SPINK & CO., CALCUTTA. HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY APR 0 9 1991 4 PREFATORY NOTE. THE following pages are founded on the Agra Guide by the same writer which has long been out of print. Like that work they are not to be taken as an exhaustive treatment of the objects of interest with which the neighbourhood of Agra abounds. Although the writer has used his best endeavours to render his information accurate by verifying it from the best and most original sources, yet he has abstained from controversy and does not desire to be regarded as an antiquarian authority. His sole object has been to provide a little handbook containing all that is likely to be useful to the ordinary visitor and to others who wish for a general knowledge of Agra and its environs. The following sentences are reproduced from the Preface to the Agra Guide : "Hitherto the only companion-book for the traveller, desirous of visiting the city of Akbar, has been a brochure published at Lahore professing to be mainly a Guide to the Taj, and founded on a Persian MS. originally translated in 1854. In his modest preface to the third edition (published in 1869), the author of this book sanctions the undertaking of a work on a more complete and systematic plan, for which, as he says, materials abound. The present work is offered to the public in no spirit of disparagement to its predecessor; and the writer hereby tenders acknowledgment of much suggestion and help received from the Guide to the Taj." |