[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) › 8.3.3 # The Rashīdī History 8.3.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [8.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.3) This being the case, the bulk of them must have preserved their Mongol type to the last, and it may perhaps be fairly conjectured that whatever change they had undergone, was due less to the fusion of blood than to the conversion of the people to Islam. The spread of the Musulman religion tends always to the modification of manners and customs, and to the use of the Arabic, Turki or Persian language; but in spite of all, racial characteristics remain, until very gradually expunged by a course of inter-breeding, that must extend over many centuries. Several parallel cases (besides that of the Hazáras) might be cited among Asiatic nations; but one, having no relation to the Mongol tribes, will suffice. The Baltis of Baltistan, or Little Tibet, formed originally a section of the ordinary population of Tibet, were of the same religion, and used the same language. Some three centuries or more ago, they were converted to the Musulman faith, and began gradually to change their manners. At present the written language of Tibet is unknown among them, Persian having replaced it; their chiefs, through intermarriage with neighbouring Musulman peoples, have changed so greatly, even in type, that usually no trace of the Tibetan is left; but the mass of the nation, though practising Musulman social customs and wearing a Musulman costume, have not lost the Tibetan spoken language, and are, in feature and other personal attributes, as thoroughly Tibetan as ever they were. - [Previous: 8.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.2) - [Next: 8.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.4) - [Up: 8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.3) · Pramāṇa