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

ISBN-13: 9781108055871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 590 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 5 charts the end of the Afghan dynasty in 1526 and most of the reign of Akbar, as frankly recounted in Abd-ul-Qadir Bada'uni's Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh (1595). It also includes chronicles of the rule of the second Mughal emperor, Humayun (1508 56), and the Tarikh-i-Akbari. The appendices contain Elliot's notes on aspects of Indian culture."