The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period

ISBN-13: 9781108055864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 582 str.

Henry Miers Elliot;John Dowson

Opis

This extensive eight-volume work was first published between 1867 and 1877 by the linguist John Dowson (1820 81) from the manuscripts of the colonial administrator and scholar Sir Henry Miers Elliot (1808 53). Before his death, hoping to bolster British colonial ideology, Elliot had intended to evaluate scores of Arabic and Persian historians of India, believing that his translations would demonstrate the violence of the Muslim rulers and 'make our native subjects more sensible of the immense advantages accruing to them under the mildness and the equity of our rule'. Volume 4 covers the death of Timur in 1405 and continues to Akbar (1542 1605), including the autobiography of Babur (1483 1530), the Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi (1580), and the Tarikh-i-Daudi, covering the fall of the Karrani dynasty of Bengal and the rise of Akbar. The appendices discuss further anecdotal and related literature of the age."