The Rashīdī History 9.1.1

9.1.1

Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations ; they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not; . . . — Ps. xlix., 11-12. The province called by Mirza Haidar, 'Mangalai Suyah,' extended, as we have seen, from the western limit of Farghâna as far east as the modern Kâra Shahr, a town and district that, in his day, bore the name of Châlish, and more anciently that of 'Yenki' or 'Yen-Ki.' This district, and the larger one of Turfân, that lay beyond it to the eastward, formed, during the two centuries (or the greater part of them) that the Târikh-i-Rashidi embraces, a Moghul principality which had an entirely separate government from that of the chief Moghul Khanate. During the latter half of the fourteenth century and the first quarter of the fifteenth, while the Dughlât Amirs were in power in the provinces of Kâshghar, Aksu, Khotan, etc.—that is, in the whole of Alti-Shahr—there is nothing in the Târikh-i-Rashidi, or in the work of any Musulman author that I am acquainted with, to indicate who were the rulers of these eastern districts, except Mirza Haidar's mention of their temporary conquest by Khizir Khwâja.