[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) › 4.4.3 # The Rashīdī History 4.4.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 4.4.3 - **Language:** English ### [4.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4.3) Thus, although the chronology and even some of the events of the times are uncertain, the final division of the Chaghatai Khanate appears to have taken place in or about the year 1321, and it resulted in two separate lines of Khans being established which were never afterwards united. The western branch was, a little later, superseded by Timur, whose descendants, through Baber, gave the ruling house to India, which has gone, for three centuries, by the name of "Moghul"; though, as we shall see from Mirza Haidar's narrative, it was, in its early days, known — and perhaps more correctly — as the "Chaghatai." The history of the eastern branch — that of the true "Moghuls" of Central Asia — we may now leave to be told, in detail, by our author; but as this line was several times broken, or subdivided, and as the subject is a complicated one, it may aid the reader to give (immediately below), in the form of an epitomised statement, a general view of the succession of the Moghul Khans from the time of Isan Bugha onwards. It is extracted almost entirely from Erskine's History of India, and was compiled by him from the Tarikh-i-Rashidi; but it contains some emendations from the Chinese history of the Ming dynasty, as translated by Dr. Bretschneider, for the period immediately succeeding the reign of Khizir Khwaja, and a few other alterations besides. - [Previous: 4.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4.2) - [Next: 4.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4.4) - [Up: 4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.4.4.3) · Pramāṇa