History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, till the Year AD 1612

Persian chronicler Ferishta's monumental seventeenth-century history of Muslim India, translated into English and published in four volumes in 1829.

Mahomed Kasim Ferishta (Author), John Briggs (Translated by)

9781108055574, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2013

686 pages, 14 tables
21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.86 kg

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 and India. Volume 4 covers the kings of Gujarat, Malwa, Khandesh, Bengal and Bihar, Jaunpur, and Multan. There are also histories of Sindh and Kashmir. A comparative chronology of the minor kingdoms that eventually became part of the Mughal empire is included, and Briggs' appendices provide glossaries of names and places.

4. History of the kings of Guzerat
5. History of the kings of Malwa
6. History of the kings of Kandeish
7. History of the kings of Bengal and Behar, commonly called Poorby
8. The history of the kings of Mooltan
9. The history of Sind and Tutta
10. The history of Kashmeer
11. Some account of the Mahomedans in Malabar
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]