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

ISBN-13: 9781108055901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 560 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 8 addresses criticism of the previously published volumes, and includes additions and corrections to them. The volume also contains extracts of numerous additional histories covering the end of the Mughal Empire from Muhammad Shah (1702 1748) to the establishment of British political and military dominance in India in the mid-nineteenth century."