Nuṣrat Jang

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Nuṣrat Jang (Persian: نصرت جنگ), properly ʻAbd al-Vahhāb Khān Shīkūh al-Mulk Naṣīr al-Dawlah Nuṣrat Jang Bahādur (ca. 1724–1801) was the fourth son of the Nawab of Arcot, Anvār al-Dīn Khān Bahādur (d. 1749).^[1] He was a collector of manuscripts, examples of which are in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library and the British Library.^[2] With rise of Hyder Ali (r. 1761–1782) Nuṣrat Jang's collection passed to that ruler and thence to Tipu Sultan (r. 1782–1799).

References

↑ P. Wibulsilp, Nawabi Karnatak: Muhammad Ali Khan in the Making of a Mughal Successor State in Pre-colonial South India, 1749-1795 (Leiden 2019-04-09).
↑ For the Manchester manuscript, see: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-PERSIAN-00900/9.

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[1] P. Wibulsilp, Nawabi Karnatak: Muhammad Ali Khan in the Making of a Mughal Successor State in Pre-colonial South India, 1749-1795 (Leiden 2019-04-09).

[2] For the Manchester manuscript, see: https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/view/MS-PERSIAN-00900/9.

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