[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) › 8.1.2 # The Rashīdī History 8.1.2 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.1.2 - **Language:** English ### [8.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.2) These neighbours mispronounced the name of the new-comers' original nation and, afterwards becoming their historians, handed it down to posterity under what appears to be an altered form. Fortunately it was not greatly changed by either Persian or Turki writers, yet the slight modification they made has led, in modern times, to doubts whether the terms Mongol and Moghul were intended for the same word, and whether they denoted one people or two. We may be satisfied that the two forms, as also the Mo-ol of some of the earlier transliterators from the Chinese, are intended for one and the same. - [Previous: 8.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.1) - [Next: 8.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.3) - [Up: 8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.2) · Pramāṇa