[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) › 3.2.1 # The Rashīdī History 3.2.1 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 3.2.1 - **Language:** English ### [3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.2.1) Still, after making every allowance, it must be admitted that Mirza Haidar's book has its shortcomings, when viewed as a practical history. His flights of unmeaning rhetoric are, unfortunately, frequent, if scarcely so extravagant as those of most Persian writers. He constantly breaks out into verse, also, though he usually indulges in this form of ornament parenthetically—by way of declamation—and thus only interrupts the course of the narrative, while not marring its sense. His sentences, again, are often involved and his meaning not always apparent. This is more especially the case where he uses the oratio obliqua, and where he puts speeches into the mouths of his characters; but when he confines himself to the direct relation of an event, such as the siege of Yangi-Hisar or the battle of Kanauj, his descriptive power is excellent, and the picture he presents is all that can be desired. On the whole, it may be said that for an author who takes credit to himself (as the Mirza does in his prologue) for being a past master in the art of making verses and in the "epistolary style," his writing is not obscure as Asiatic writings go; and though rather tedious repetitions are found in some of the historical sections, this is a fault on the right side, and causes less embarrassment than when gaps occur in the narrative. These points relate more particularly to the author's style, but the chief imperfections in the work lie deeper. - [Previous: 3.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.1.8) - [Next: 3.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.2.2) - [Up: 3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.2.1) · Pramāṇa