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...

An introductory text on the social history of crime, deviancy and criminal behaviour from 1100 to the present day.