[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 248.2.2 # The Nāṣirī Generations 248.2.2 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 248.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [248.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2.2) Mirza Muhammad Hasan Sian, otherwise Mirza Muhammad Haidar, son of Muhammad Husain, Doghlati, who preceded Abu-l-Ghazi, Bahadur Khan, by about a century, says, that the country and tribes of Mughalistan had become so utterly ruined and dispersed a hundred years or more before his time even—he wrote in 951 H.—that not a sign or trace remained of men capable of writing history, and mentions this as the reason of his own inability to furnish better accounts of them than he has done. I mention this to show that Abu-l-Ghazi, although he did possess eighteen books on the subject—including the Tarikh-i-Ghazani—written by Turks and Tajziks, preferred, it seems, rather to collect oral traditions, many centuries old, than refer to his written authorities. Abu-l-Fazl, the author of the Akbar Namah, who conceals everything that he fancies does not tend to the glorification of his master, Akbar, smoothes over this total overthrow and almost extinction of the Mughal-I-mak, from which his master traces his descent, gives a cock and bull story to begin with, and says that, "after putting Tur, and Sundz Khan, and the I-ghurs to flight, they played the part of the fox upon the Mughals," and winds up with excuses and apologies for the disaster, where none are required, and the unction of consolation that it was "all for the best," &c., &c. If the Mughals had been the triumphant party, what a flourish of trumpets we should have been treated to! - [Previous: 248.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2.1) - [Next: 248.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2.3) - [Up: 248.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.248.2.2) · Pramāṇa