[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) › 4.1.4 # The Rashīdī History 4.1.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 4.1.4 - **Language:** English ### [4.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.4) In order, then, to furnish a foundation for Mirza Haidar's chronicle, it is necessary to fill in, however briefly, this gap of a hundred years, and, in doing so, to take a rapid glance at the two allotments which bordered on that of Chaghatai Khan — the one on the west and the other on the east — for the affairs of all three are, to some extent, interwoven at certain periods. In assigning his dominions to his four sons, Chingiz Khan appears to have followed an ancient Mongol custom. The sons of a chief usually ruled, as their father's deputies, over certain nations or clans, and at his death each received, as an appanage, the section of the population which had been under his care. Thus the distribution was rather tribal than territorial, and the tribes, which were in most cases nomadic, sometimes shifted their abode, or were driven, by enemies, to migrate from one district to another. These movements, as a fact, do not seem to have occurred very frequently, nor to have altered the position of the main body of the people to any great extent. It will be more convenient, therefore, and far more intelligible, to state the distribution of Chingiz's dominions, as far as possible, in territorial terms. Juji, or Tushi, the eldest son of Chingiz, died some months before his father, and therefore, never became supreme Khakan in the regions he governed; but they descended intact to his own son and successor, Batu, as an appanage direct from Chingiz. - [Previous: 4.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.3) - [Next: 4.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.5) - [Up: 4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.4) · Pramāṇa