The Nāṣirī Generations 248.3.5

248.3.5

The reason why we possess much greater information respecting the Mughal I-mak is owing to their overwhelming successes and conquests, and because nearly all authors who have written on the subject were subjects of the Mughal rulers, and their object was to trace their descent more particularly, but the main facts are not concealed—they merely gave more attention to the history of the Mughals. It is to be regretted however that we have no detailed accounts of the movements of the tribes of the Tattar I-mak and their rulers, after the time of Sunij Khan, the VIIIth of the Tattar dynasty herein mentioned, who, with the aid of his allies, nearly exterminated the whole Mughal race; but, from what may be gathered from Oriental history, and as shown in this Translation, the Tattar I-mak, the offshoots of the descendants of the seven chieftains preceding Sunij Khan, also formed, like preceding offshoots of the descendants of Turk, in the course of time, great independent tribes who are correctly styled Tattars, as well as those springing from Tattar Khan and his descendants, the whole being undoubtedly Turks, or, in other words, all those who do not spring from the Mughal I-mak, and are not descended from Mughal Khan—Tattar’s brother—being correctly styled Tattars, and others, not springing in a direct line from Tattar Khan, but from others, the offshoots of his ancestors, being properly called Turks.