The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . sonage of importance in the eyes of aThe more wealthy of these were imbued with a spiiof piety and benevolence, which have kept their namalive. They have left their properties tied up fthe service of God and the benefit of man. Treligious and charitable endowments of Basant .-Khan, Nazir Ali Khan, Darab Ali Khan and Arj-mand Ali Khan deserve special mention. MOBARAK MANZIL. To the south east of Kadam Shar
The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . sonage of importance in the eyes of aThe more wealthy of these were imbued with a spiiof piety and benevolence, which have kept their namalive. They have left their properties tied up fthe service of God and the benefit of man. Treligious and charitable endowments of Basant .-Khan, Nazir Ali Khan, Darab Ali Khan and Arj-mand Ali Khan deserve special mention. MOBARAK MANZIL. To the south east of Kadam Sharif, about a cou]of miles from the Palace, is Mobarak Manzil callalso Humayun Manzil. The main building and tout offices were built by the East India Companywhat was then known as the Findalbagh. TlCourts were held here from 1765 tc when th| were removed to Calcutta. Subs^ ^-*^^i,x^ l^xc Crand Criminal Courts were located here, beforeCornwallis, in 1793, transferred the Supreme Couito Calcutta. By order of the Governor iGeneral, the building!with the Findalbagh, were sold, in 1831, to HumayilJah for Rs. 10,5000 and the adjoining lands abuildings were purchased by the Nawab for Rs. 35,0. o :^XH O H W N o [ 179 ] from the Rajah of Nashipur, who had purchased them from the East India Company. The whole was con- i verted into a garden house and summer residence, i when the beautiful building-, with marble floors, onithe north, by the side of the tank, known as Lai Bunglow, was added by Humayun Jah. On the terrace in front of this building- stood the Masnud or throne, used by the Nawabs Nazim of Beng-al from the time of Sultan Shuja, broug-ht here by Humayun Jah. It was a round table made of black stone (horn blende), six feet in diameter and eighteen inches high, with four thick pedastals, the whole hewn out of one block. The edge or rim is cut into sixteen facets and on one of them is an inscription in Persian which reads thus :—Taiar Shud Takt Mobarak batarikh bistohaftum Shaher
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