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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is the more enhanced by reflecting on the re-
tired way in which she was reared and lived,
restrained by the customs of her people within
the high walls of a zeenahnah, without the ad-
vantages of a liberal education or the immediate
society of intelligent people. She seems, by
all account, to have been a most perfect pattern
of human excellence.

" In forming her will (Villoiettee Begum had
been a widow several years before her death),
she does not appear to have wished a single
thing to be clone towards perpetuating her
name,—as is usual with the great, in erecting
lofty domes over the deposited clay of the
Mussulmaun,—but her immense wealth was
chiefly bequeathed in charitable gifts. The
holy and the humble were equally remembered
in its distribution. She had been acquainted
with the virtues of the good Maulvee of Luck-
now, to whom she left a handsome sum of
money for his own use, and many valuable
articles to fit up the Emaum-baarah for the ser-
vice of Mahurrum, with a desire that the same
should be conveyed to him as soon after her