[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) › 8.5.4 # The Rashīdī History 8.5.4 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 8.5.4 - **Language:** English ### [8.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.4) The second conclusion is that the word Moghul, even where it is used in an ethnic sense, is frequently misapplied, and so extended, at certain periods in history, as to comprise many tribes of real Turki race (among others), until large numbers of people who were not of Moghul race came to be called Moghuls. This habit appears to have been prevalent first in the time of Chingiz and his immediate successors, and subsequently during the ascendency of the Chaghatai (or so-called Moghul) dynasty in India. The third conclusion is that the application and significance of all three names — Turk, Tatar, and Moghul — varied at different times and in different countries. It appears to me that a due appreciation of these three points will help to clear up much that has been regarded hitherto as inconsistent, and even contradictory, in the Musulman histories, and has occasioned no little controversy among European writers. That the ethnographic nomenclature of Persian, Turki, and Arabic writers is anomalous, cannot but be granted; but in Asiatic nomenclature what is there that is not anomalous? They had no knowledge of the scientific ethnology that guides the modern European commentator on their works, but merely followed the common speech of the time, and employed the terms that had grown into use among the people around them. In reading their books, therefore, it is futile to look for systematic nomenclature; - [Previous: 8.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.3) - [Next: 8.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.5) - [Up: 8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.8.5.4) · Pramāṇa