[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) › 4.2.3 # The Rashīdī History 4.2.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 4.2.3 - **Language:** English ### [4.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.3) Little is known of the way in which Chaghatai disposed of his kingdom at his death, and there appears to be no mention, anywhere, of his having followed the ancestral custom of his house in distributing it among his descendants. He is recorded to have left a numerous family, but to have been succeeded by a grandson, and a minor, named Kara Hulaku, while his widow, Ebuskun, assumed the regency. This statement, however, seems to apply to Turkistan, Transoxiana, and the adjacent regions : at all events not to Kashghar, Yarkand, Khotan, Aksu, and the southern slopes of the Tian Shan mountains — or, in other words, to the province south of the line of the Tian Shan, which is called, in our times, Eastern Turkistan. As regards this province, Mirza Haidar tells us that it was given by Chaghatai, presumably at his death, to the clan or house of Dughlat, whose members were reckoned to be of the purest Mongol descent, and one of the noblest divisions of that people. We shall hear more of this clan and the province they ruled, farther on ; but the important point to notice here, with reference to subsequent events, is that the Dughlats were made hereditary chiefs, or Amirs, of the various districts of Eastern Turkistan, as far back as the time of Chaghatai, for it is chiefly on this incident that hinges the permanent division of the Chaghatai realm into two branches, at a later date. - [Previous: 4.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.2) - [Next: 4.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.4) - [Up: 4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.2.3) · Pramāṇa