History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, till the Year AD 1612 4 Volume Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society) - Softcover

Ferishta, Mahomed Kasim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108055583 ISBN 13: 9781108055581

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 comparative chronologies of events in Europe and India. The work also includes Briggs' own account of the history of the kings of Golkonda and a chronology of the Portuguese wars in India. The coverage of the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur in the sixteenth century notably draws on Ferishta's first-hand knowledge.

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Book Description:

This four-volume work, published in 1829, was the first major English translation of Persian chronicler Ferishta's monumental history of the Muslim presence in India. Notable as the most reliable of contemporary accounts of the Mughal empire, Ferishta's seventeenth-century work is a valuable source on life in India before British colonisation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1108055583
• ISBN 13: 9781108055581
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 2536