The Nāṣirī Generations 287.4.2

287.4.2

In a book published at the commencement of this Afghan crisis, entitled History of Afghanistan from the Earliest Period, by Colonel G. B. Malleson C.S.I., we are told, at page 114, with reference to the year 1249, that “In that year, Shir Khan, the governor of the Panjab for the King of Dehli Nasir-u-Din Mahmud, invaded Afghanistan, seized upon Ghazni and Kabul, and annexed them to the Dehli monarchy. It is probable that they were speedily recovered, for not only, in subsequent years, do we find the Moghols making repeated incursions into India, but in the year 1336 traces appear of a new Afghan dynasty seated on the throne of Ghazni, owning subordination to, and acknowledging the suzerainty of, the Moghols of Central Asia.” Now the text above translated—The Tabakat-i-Nasiri—was dedicated to, and named after the Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, who is referred to in the above extract, and in no work extant will such details be found respecting his reign in particular, and also the history of the Ghuris. Indeed all later historians obtain their information from this Tabakat, for there was no other contemporary writer but its author, that we know of, who gives such details.