Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

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perance, equal to that of a durweish of his faith,
whom he imitates in expending his income on
others without indulging in a single luxury
himself.

The Queen's manners are very amiable and
condescending; she is reported to be as highly
gifted with intellectual endowments as I can
affirm she is with genuine politeness.

I was induced to visit the mukhburrah of the
great-great-grandfather of the present King of
Oude, who, at his death,—which occurred at
Delhi, I believe,-—was one of the Soobadhaars
of the sovereign ruler of India. This nobleman,
in his time, had been a staunch adherent to the
descendants of Timoor, and had been rewarded
for his fidelity by public honours and the private
friendship of the King. The monument erected
over his remains, is in a costly style of magnifi-
cence, and in the best possible condition, stand-
ing in the centre of a flower-garden which is
enclosed by a stone wall, with a grand gateway
of good architecture. The mukhburrah is spa-
cious, and in the usual Mussulmaun style of
building mausoleums; viz., a square, with a