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Government of Assam Bepartment of Distortcal an& Hnttquarlau StU6tC5 PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE The Department has published several old historical masterpieces in English and in Assamese, edited on most up- to-date lines. Each Assamese chronicle is furnished with Preface and Introduction in English and Assamese, and Marginalia gainst each paragraph. The Asamar Padya- Burarfji, the Kachari Buranji, the Jayantia Buran)i and the Assam Buranji (1648-1681 A.D.), have elaborate Synopses in English. Publication No. 6, Tungkhungia Buranji, is the first systematic English translation of an Assamese chronicle. In tile paucity of written and authentic records about Cachar and Jayantia, our publications, Kachari Buranji and Jayantia Buranji, will serve as valuable sources of information to all interested in the history, of the two kingdoms. The Persian chronicle Bahar'istan-i-Ghaybi, the only extant manuscript of which is in the Bibliotheque Natkmale of Paris, is already well- known to scholars in India. The complete English transla- tion of this chrdnicle, published for the first time, will be a valuable mine of information to students of Mughal history. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS X ASSAM BURANJI.— A history of Ahom rule in Assam, 1228-1826 A.D. An enlarged version of Kasinath Tamuli-Pnukan's chronicle by Harakanta Barua. Pp. xii-f 152. Cloth, Rs. 2-8 ; Paper cover, Re. 1. 4 KAMRUPAR BURANJI.— A idetailed history of the Ahom-Mughal conflicts, with chapters on ancient