[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) › 8.3.5 # The Rashīdī History 8.3.5 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.3.5 - **Language:** English ### [8.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.5) or "the Turk of the Spheres." All who lived in the steppes and ranges, outside the pale of what was regarded as civilisation, and led a pastoral or unsettled life, but who were not distinctively mountaineers, were deemed a separate class (irrespective of race) and required a separate name to denote them. To this class the name of Turk attached itself throughout Central Asia. In Europe and in India the word Turk was not used in this sense. By Europeans, and perhaps Western Asiatics also, the word Tatar, or Tartar, was usually in vogue, down to quite modern times, to indicate the nomadic nations of the interior of Asia, without reference to any racial considerations ; while in India the name Moghul came to be applied (in times subsequent to the rise of the Mongols, at any rate) in a very similar way, to these same races. Abul Ghazi, the historian Khan of Khiva, himself a Turk by nationality, though of remote Mongol descent, constantly uses the word Turk in its sociological sense, and applies it indiscriminately to all the nomad and steppe-dwelling tribes, when he requires a name for the whole of them ; but, when referring to their descent or language, or when in any way particularising between them, I do not know of a single instance of his alluding to the Moghuls as connected by blood with the Turki tribes. - [Previous: 8.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.4) - [Next: 8.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.6) - [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.8.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.5) · Pramāṇa