[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) › 8.1.3 # The Rashīdī History 8.1.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [8.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.3) With the name of the land it was somewhat different. The Mongols themselves have perhaps never had a general name for the whole of the countries inhabited by their tribes — that is, for the region known to Europeans as 'Mongolia' in its most extended sense. At the time of Chingiz Khan, probably whatever country was vaguely regarded by Turki and Persian writers as being in the original occupation of the Mongols, or Moghuls, was called simply Moghulistan; but later, when a specific region, bordering on some of the most advanced and thickly peopled countries of the Turks and Tajiks, became the home of Mongol tribesmen, who made their presence felt in a manner none too agreeable, they absorbed the attention of their neighbours and came to be spoken of as the Moghuls in a special sense, and their land as Moghulistan. The rest of the race fell out of sight: their territory was far away and probably seldom heard of, while taking into consideration the loose ideas prevalent among Asiatics on such subjects, it is not in the least unlikely that the smaller, but better known, region, should have acquired for itself the name which, by strict right, should have been applied to the whole. That the original population of this smaller region was composed of various nations, previous to its becoming the home of Mongol tribesmen, we have seen already. - [Previous: 8.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.2) - [Next: 8.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.4) - [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.8.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.1.3) · Pramāṇa