[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) › 252.7 # The Nāṣirī Generations 252.7 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 252.7 - **Language:** English ### [252.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.252.7) The Yarkand Mission \[to the ruler of the State of Kashghar\] made some similar ethnological discoveries in that part of Central Asia, of which the following is one specimen out of many. At page 81 of the “Report,” we are told respecting “the urban population,” that they consist of “two typical forms,” one of which, “the Mongolian,” contains “the Manjhu, the Moghol or Mongol, the Kalmak, the Kirghiz, the Noghay, the Kapchak, and the Uzbak. All of whom are designated Tartar, together with the Kara Khitay, the Khitay, and the Tungani, who are excluded from the catalogue though of the same stock.” This may be termed, confusion worse confounded, but two pages farther on we are informed that “all that can be distinctly stated is that Tartar blood predominates with a greater or less admixture of the Turk element,” &c., &c. The monkish travellers found, centuries ago, how incorrect it was to style Mughals by the name of Tartars. De Plano Carpini \[A.D. 1246\] says he and of pardon, in the world-illumining opinion of the Sovereign of the people of Islam — Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah — and other readers of his work. - [Previous: 252.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.252.6) - [Next: 253.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.253.1) - [Up: 252](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.252) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.252.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.252.7) · Pramāṇa