Author: Syad Muhammad Latif

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-26

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780484844390

Excerpt from Agra, Historical Descriptive: With an Account of Akbar and His Court and of the Modern City of Agra Much has, no doubt, been written about Agra by historians and travellers, but beyond Mr. Keene's Handbook to Agm, a meritorious little work, intended chiefly as a guidebook for travellers, there is no book that gives a connected account of this historical city, dealing with its past and present history and its archaeological remains and antiquities in a way which might commend itself to the attention of the student and the traveller, the antiquarian, and the general reader. The inscriptions, too, which form the chief value of the several more important monuments, and help to furnish correct data on which to base the accounts, are entirely omitted, and what is most important seems not to have received adequate attention. Namely, the associa tion of past events with the interesting architectural objects which meet the view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.