[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) › 3.3.4 # The Rashīdī History 3.3.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 3.3.4 - **Language:** English ### [3.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3.4) For the ensuing nineteen years, during which Sultan Said's reign lasted, the Mirza served him in various capacities, but chiefly as a soldier; and it was only after the Khan's death, which occurred while returning from an expedition against Ladak in 1533, that he abandoned Kashghar and transferred his services to the Chaghatais in India. He not only took part in Sultan Said's wars against the Kirghiz and Uzbegs in Moghulistan, and against other tribal enemies, but was entrusted with important commands on distant expeditions. The first of these was an invasion of the hill country, then known as Bilur, or Bolor, in 1527. The expedition was nominally under the command of the Khan's eldest son, Rashid Sultan, but seeing that our author acted as a sort of tutor, or governor, to this young prince, it seems that he had much to do with the conduct of the campaign. Bolor may be described, roughly, as all the small hill states lying south of the Hindu Kush, between Baltistan on the east and Afghanistan on the west—as the limits of these countries are now accepted. Thus it included Hunza, Gilgit, Chitral, and probably most of the petty states sometimes known as "Yaghistan." There appears to have been no cause for the invasion, other than that the inhabitants were not Musulmans; - [Previous: 3.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3.3) - [Next: 3.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3.5) - [Up: 3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.3.4) · Pramāṇa