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

ISBN-13: 9781108055888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 588 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 6 covers the death of Akbar in 1605 and includes extracts from the Akbarnama of Abul Fazl (1551 1602), the emperor's vizier and court historian. It also covers the reign of Jahangir (1569 1627) with extracts from the Jahangirnama, his own memoirs. The appendices include a translation of the introduction to Ferishta's early seventeenth-century history."