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 8 addresses
criticism of the previously published volumes, and includes
additions and corrections to them. The volume also contains
extracts of numerous additional histories covering the end of the
Mughal Empire from Muhammad Shah (1702-1748) to the establishment
of British political and military dominance in India in the
mid-nineteenth century.
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