Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests 2 Volume Set

A two-volume history of the Islamic kingdoms of southern India from the thirteenth century onward, published in 1794.

Ferishta (Author), Jonathan Scott (Edited and translated by)

9781108056403, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 28 February 2013

1004 pages
25.7 x 18 x 5.3 cm, 1.712 kg

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 thirteenth century onwards. Volume 1 comprises a translation of the work of the Persian chronicler Ferishta (1560–1620), documenting the history of the Deccan Plateau to the end of the sixteenth century. Volume 2 covers the expansion of the Mughal empire, its decline and the foundation of independent kingdoms, concluding with a history of Bengal.

Volume 1. Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Bhamenee Dynasty of Dekkan Sovereigns
Part II. History of the Beejapore, Ahmednuggur, and Golconda Sovereignties. Volume 2. Preface
Part III. Aurungzebe's Operations in Dekkan
Part IV. History of Aurungzebe's Successors, by Eradut Khan
Part V. Continuation of the History of Aurungzebe's Successors
Part VI. History of Bengal, from the Accession of Aliverdee Khan Mahabut Jung.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]