The autobiography of Amir Ali Khan (1810–80), legal and financial advisor to Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, after his deposition in 1856. The text is written in Persian with an abstract in English in which the author summarises his favourable analysis of the British rise to power in the subcontinent.

The volume contains photograph portraits of the author, Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, and several leading figures within the British administration in India.