“Ballad on Nadir Shah’s invasion of India.”

WE have received a copy of the “Journal of the Punjab Historical Society,” Vol. VI, No.1, containing the text in English characters and English translation of nearly 854 verses forming the ballad on Nadir Shah’s Invasion of India during 1738-39. Some of these ballads were originally collected by Sir Edward Maclagan, but later Rai Bahadur Pandit Hari Kishan Kaul, C.I.E., was able to collect the bulk of them from several sources. An interesting paper on this subject was read before the Punjab Historical Society on the 26th September, 1916, and this has been now printed in a handsome volume, containing besides two portraits, one of Nadir Shah and another of Emperor Mahomed Shah, during whose reign the invasion took place. There is no doubt that the compilation is one of the very few really good Punjabee Ballads which has yet been published in the Roman character with English translation.