[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) › 4.1.8 # The Rashīdī History 4.1.8 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 4.1.8 - **Language:** English ### [4.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.8) At any rate, he was animated by the soldier-like spirit of his father, and succeeded in keeping order among as heterogeneous a population, as a kingdom was ever composed of. In 1232, for instance, when sedition showed itself at Bokhara, he acted with promptitude, if with severity, and saved his country from a far-reaching calamity. He was, in all probability, an old-fashioned Mongol, for we read that he stood by the Yasak, or code of laws instituted by Chingiz Khan, and that he showed little favour to what was, at that time in his dominions, the comparatively new and rising religion of Islam. He must, however, have been fairly tolerant, for it is recorded that his minister for Transoxiana was a Musulman, called the Jumilat-ul-Mulk, and that mosques and colleges were founded during his reign. But if Chaghatai did not lean towards Islam, neither does it appear that he ever inclined towards Christianity, though that religion, as practised by the Nestorians, must have been familiar to him. It existed in his own dominions and in those of his brother Oktai, who seems to have been thoroughly tolerant, and to have encouraged at his capital, Karakorum, every form of worship, besides the enlistment in his service of men of all religions — a circumstance which had, as will be seen later, an important bearing on subsequent history. - [Previous: 4.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.7) - [Next: 4.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.1) - [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.4.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.1.8) · Pramāṇa