The History of India, as Told by its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period

Henry Miers Elliot

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139507134

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The Muhammadan Period

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Volume 1
Henry Miers Elliot
Edited by John Dowson

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
First published in:: 1867
Online ISBN:: 9781139507134
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507134

Subjects:: Area Studies, South Asian History, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society

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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 1 contains introductory material and Elliot's original preface; early Arab geographers' chronicles, including Ibn Khordadbeh's ninth-century Book of Roads and Kingdoms and tenth-century works by Estakhri and Ibn Hawqal; histories of Sindh, including the Chach Nama; and extensive appendices giving further contextual information and ethnographic notes on India.

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The Muhammadan Period

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

PRELIMINARY NOTE
pp v-vi

EDITOR'S PREFACE
pp vii-xiv

SIR HENEY ELLIOT'S ORIGINAL PREFACE
pp xv-xxvii

NOTICE OF SIR HENRY M. ELLIOT
pp xxviii-xxix

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA
pp xxx-xxx

Contents
pp xxxi-xxxii

EARLY ARAB GEOGRAPHERS

I - The Merchant Sulaimán and Abú Zaid
pp 1-11

II - Ibn Khurdádba
pp 12-17

III - Al Mas'údí
pp 18-25

IV - Al Istakhrí
pp 26-30

V - Ibn Haukal (Ashkálu-l Bilád)
pp 31-40

VI - Súru-l Buldán
pp 41-41

VII - Rashìdu-d Dìn, from Al Bírúní
pp 42-73

VIII - Al Idrísí
pp 74-93

IX - Al Kazwíní
pp 94-99

HISTORIANS OF SIND

I - Mujmalu-t Tawáríkh
pp 100-112

II - Futúhu-l Buldán, of Biládurí
pp 113-130

III - Chach-náma
pp 131-211

IV - Táríkhu-s Sind, of Mír Ma'súm
pp 212-252

V - Tárìkh-i Táhirì
pp 253-288

VI - Beg-Lár-náma
pp 289-299

VII - Tarkhán-náma or Arghún-náma
pp 300-326

VIII - Tuhfatu-l Kirám
pp 327-352

APPENDIX

NOTE (A) - GEOGRAPHICAL
pp 353-404

NOTE (B) - HISTORICAL
pp 405-502

NOTE (C) - ETHNOLOGICAL
pp 503-532

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