The Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560 1620) composed his great work, published in this four-volume English translation in 1829, at the court of Bijapur where he spent most of his life under the patronage of King Ibrahim Adil Shah II. It covers Muslim India from around 975 to 1612 and is notable for its balance, despite Ferishta's close involvement with some of the events and people he records. Valuable additions to the text made by the translator, East India Company officer John Briggs (1785 1875), include genealogical tables and notes, as well as a comparative chronology of events in Europe...

The Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560 1620) composed his great work, published in this four-volume English translation in 1829, at the court of Bijapur where he spent most of his life under the patronage of King Ibrahim Adil Shah II. It covers Muslim India from around 975 to 1612 and is notable for its balance, despite Ferishta's close involvement with some of the events and people he records. In the translator's preface, East India Company officer John Briggs (1785 1875) highlights the danger of misconceptions about the people of India and the importance of religious policy in the success or...

The Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560 1620) composed his great work, published in this four-volume English translation in 1829, at the court of Bijapur where he spent most of his life under the patronage of King Ibrahim Adil Shah II. It covers Muslim India from around 975 to 1612 and is notable for its balance, despite Ferishta's close involvement with some of the events and people he records. Valuable additions to the text made by the translator, East India Company officer John Briggs (1785 1875), include genealogical tables and notes, as well as a comparative chronology of events in Europe...

The Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560 1620) composed his great work, published in this four-volume English translation in 1829, at the court of Bijapur where he spent most of his life under the patronage of King Ibrahim Adil Shah II. It covers Muslim India from around 975 to 1612 and is notable for its balance, despite Ferishta's close involvement with some of the events and people he records. Valuable additions to the text made by the translator, East India Company officer John Briggs (1785 1875), include genealogical tables and notes, as well as a comparative chronology of events in Europe...

Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott (1753 1829) became a private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings in 1783. A gifted orientalist, he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, returned to England in 1785, and a year later published the first of his many translations, Memoirs of Eradut Khan (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), shedding light on the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century. This two-volume work, published in 1794, narrates the fortunes of the Islamic kingdoms in southern India from the...

Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott (1753 1829) became a private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings in 1783. A gifted orientalist, he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, returned to England in 1785, and a year later published the first of his many translations, Memoirs of Eradut Khan (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), shedding light on the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century. This two-volume work, published in 1794, narrates the fortunes of the Islamic kingdoms in southern India from the...