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 3 covers the
period from the death of Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (1246-66) to the rise
to power of Timur (1336-1405) at the end of the fourteenth century.
It includes Timur's purported autobiography and the
fifteenth-century Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, a history of
the Timurid dynasty. The appendices contain studies of
contemporaneous texts, including poetry and the Travels of Ibn
Battuta.
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