The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians : The Muhammadan Period (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society)

Elliot, Henry Miers/ Dowson, John (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2013/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 590 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108055871
• DDC分類 954.025

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface; 34. Tarikh-i Salatan-i Afaghana; 35. Makhzan-i Afghani and Tarikh-i Khan-Jahan Lodi; 36. Humayun-nama; 37. Tarikh-i Rashidi; 38. Tazkiratu-l Wakiat; 39. Tarikh-i Alfi; 40. Tabakat-i Akbari; 41. Muntakhabu-t Tawarikh, or Tarikh-i Badauni; Appendices.