Râs Mâlâ: Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat, in Western India is a 1856 historical work by British colonial administrator Alexander Kinloch Forbes.

Forbes furnished Dalpatram with necessary assistance to travel extensively and collect the chronicles and inscription from different parts of the province.

Dalpatram had profound knowledge of Braj Bhasha and Charani dialect, which were popular languages in poetry gatherings at that time.

Thus, Dalpatram helped Forbes to map the province and to give an outline of native world view, life style of local people.

The fourth book, entitled Conclusions, gives an outline of the life practices of the people of the province: it describes the Hindu castes, Hindu beliefs, religious services and festivals, land tenures under Muslim rulers, Marathas and the British rule, marriage institution, funeral rites, etc.

[1][9] In the introduction of the 1878 edition, J. W. Watson serving at the Rajkot as the British Resident, noted, "There are few other books of reference about Goozerat [Gujarat], and none of them so encyclopaedic in character.