[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) › 8.4.7 # The Rashīdī History 8.4.7 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.4.7 - **Language:** English ### [8.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.4.7) and in support of this view he cites a valuable passage from Khafi Khan (for which he acknowledges his indebtedness to the late Professor Blochmann, who may be inferred to have translated it), which runs as follows: "The flourishing condition of Mugholistan commenced with Mughol Khan, who was a great king. Although from the time of Akbar the word Mughol has been applied to the Turks and Tajiks of Irán (Persia) to such an extent that even the Sayyids of Khorasan were called Mughols, yet in reality the word is the proper term for those Turks who belong to the descendants and house of Mughol Khan; and it was used in this sense in the time of the earlier (Moslem) kings of Delhi...." Here Khafi Khan uses Turk in the same sociological sense as Rashid-ud-Din, Minhaj-ud-Din, Mirza Haidar, and the rest. Mr. Denzil Ibbetson, too, furnishes some instructive remarks, in his Report on the Punjab census, on the way the words Turk and Moghul have come to be used in modern times in the north of India. A Turk is there regarded as a native of Turkistan and a man of Mongolian race. "In the Delhi territory, indeed," writes Mr. Ibbetson, "the villagers, accustomed to describe the Mughals of the Empire as Turks, use the word as synonymous with 'official'; and I have heard my Hindu clerks, of Kayath caste, described as Turks merely because they were in Government employ. On the Biloch frontier, also, the word Turk is commonly used as synonymous with Mughal." - [Previous: 8.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.4.6) - [Next: 8.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.1) - [Up: 8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.4.7) · Pramāṇa