[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) › 3.5.2 # The Rashīdī History 3.5.2 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 3.5.2 - **Language:** English ### [3.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5.2) Both of these authors wrote within an interval not very remote from that which they chronicle, so that the events they deal with must have been fresh in the memories of their informants. Kashmir had, for some time previously, acknowledged no one supreme ruler, except those set up as mere nominal representatives of the old line of kings. Several native chiefs exercised the real authority, in various parts, and at that particular time were supporting, as a pageant, a prince whose title was Nazuk Shah. Whether Mirza Haidar began by joining issue with this personage we are not informed, but it appears rather, that he took him under his protection. It is related, however, that one Kachi Chak, the principal of those chiefs through whose representations Mirza Haidar had been originally induced to undertake the reduction of the State, very shortly deserted his benefactor. He perceived, says Abul Fazl, that his own schemes would be defeated by the establishment of Mirza Haidar's power, and "with the natural perfidy inherent in the character of the Kashmirians, suddenly withdrew from the country to seek the protection of Shir Khan " \[i.e. Shir Shah\]; with the result that a force of 2,000 Afghans was immediately despatched by the Shah, to conduct the petitioner back to his country. - [Previous: 3.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5.1) - [Next: 3.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5.3) - [Up: 3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.3.5.2) · Pramāṇa