[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 10.2.1 # The Rashīdī History 10.2.1 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 10.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [10.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.2.1) It may be regarded, therefore, that his history is the only work we have, which deals with the period subsequent to the accounts furnished by the Zafar-Nama—or from the early years of the fifteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth; while for this epoch Mirza Haidar's evidence is unsupported by any European witness, and only very partially attested to by the Chinese annalists. This solitary, individual character of the book may perhaps enhance its value as a history, and render it indispensable as a reference, for the interval where it stands alone; but it must be admitted that it would have had a still higher value had it been illustrated by outside commentary, and had it been connected with Western countries and events by a link of foreign testimony. If, in other words, some European spectator, regarding matters from a different point of view from that of Mirza Haidar, had done for him what Piano Carpini and Rubruk chanced to do for the Jahan-Kushai of Juvaini, or Marco Polo for the field covered by authors who treat of the various countries of Asia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the history of the times might have been worked out to better purpose than is the case now, and fewer doubtful points left unelucidated. - [Previous: 10.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.1.9) - [Next: 10.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.2.2) - [Up: 10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.10.2.1) · Pramāṇa