[3] The book contains important statistical data, including total cultivated area, number of villages and mahal-wise revenue.
Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah I, the Mughal viceroy of Deccan, had set up a practically independent state.
The book itself states that statistics of Bijapur and Hyderabad are incomplete, as Asaf Jah I had carried away all the records.
Unlike the contemporary Persian-language works that featured flowerly language, it contains short and simple sentences.
[1] A partial English translation of the book was published in Jadunath Sarkar's India of Aurangzib (1901).