A History of India under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun

This two-volume work of 1854 describes the history of India under the Mughal rulers Babur and his son Humayun.

William Erskine (Author)

9781108046190, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 May 2012

608 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm, 0.76 kg

This two-volume work by the Scots orientalist and historian William Erskine (1773–1852) was published posthumously by his son in 1854. It describes the history of India under the Mughal rulers Babur and his son Humayun, descendants of Taimur (Tamburlane), and is acknowledged as one of the earliest western scholarly accounts of Mughal rulers in India. Erskine had also translated the Memoirs of Emperor Babar (1826) and completed John Malcolm's biography of Lord Clive (1836). Volume 1 begins with preliminary remarks on Indian history, and a general account of the three great divisions of the Tartar tribes. The history of Babar (Babur) begins with his accession to his ancestral possessions in Central Asia in 1495, aged twelve, describes the rivalry and warfare which ended with him being expelled from his homeland, and ends with his death in 1531 as imperial ruler of Afghanistan and of most of Northern India.

Notice
Author's preface
Preliminary remarks
Introduction: 1. General account of the Tartar tribes
2. Chengíz Khán
3. Chaghatai Khan
4. New Túrki Dynasty under Mír Taimur
History of Báber: Book I. From Báber's Accession to his First Expulsion from Máwerannaher: 1. Conquest and loss of Samarkand. Loss and recovery of Andeján
2. Sheibáni Khan. Conquest and loss of Samarkand
3. Sheibáni's conquest of Táskhend and Ferghána. Expulsion of Báber
Book II. Báber's Transactions in Kábul and Máwerannaher: 1. Conquest of Kábul
2. Journey to and from Khorásán. Khan Mírza's rebellion
3. Conquest and loss of Kandahár. Rebellion of the Moghuls
4. Shah Ismael and Sheibáni. Báber in Máwerannaher
5. Arghúns in Kandahár
6. Arghún conquest of Sind and Multán
i. Conquest of Sind
ii. Conquest of Lower Sind and Multán
Book III. Báber in India: 1. Invasions of India. Battle of Pánipat. Subversion of the Lodi dynasty
2. War of Ráná Sánga, and Chándéri
3. Báber's campaigns on the Ganges
4. Báber's illness, death, and character
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]