[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) › 8.3.6 # The Rashīdī History 8.3.6 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.3.6 - **Language:** English ### [8.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.6) In other words, although he employs the name Turk to describe certain nations—among them the Moghuls—for whom he knows no other general designation, he never applies it in the particular instances where a racial consideration is involved, except to those among them whom he regards as, in reality, Turks by race. He writes, for instance: "Of all the Turk tribes who inhabited those countries at that period, the Tatars were the most numerous ...."; and again : "We have .... recounted what we know of the other branches of the race of Turks. Now, we will speak of the branches of Mongol race." It is in the same non-racial sense that Mirza Haidar uses the word Turk, when putting the remark (alluded to above) about Yunus Khan, into the mouth of Maulana Muhammad Kazi : "I had heard that Yunus Khan was a Moghul," says the Maulana, "and I concluded that he was a beardless man, with the ways and manners of any other Turk of the desert ; but when I saw him, I found that he was a person of elegant deportment, with a full beard and a Tajik face." That is, the speaker knew that Yunus was a Moghul by descent, and expected to see a man with Mongolian features, but he classed him with other Turks of the steppes. - [Previous: 8.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.5) - [Next: 8.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.7) - [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.8.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.3.6) · Pramāṇa