[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) › c2.5 # The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c2.5 The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c2.5 - **Language:** English ### [c2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2.5) With regard to the Muhammadan portion of the Chronology, the Persian histories edited by Sir Henry Elliot and Professor Dowson, supplemented by the British Museum Coin Catalogues and the works of Elphinstone, Briggs, Price, Clive Bayley, Blochmann, and others, have supplied a great deal of material. The work which has, however, yielded the most trustworthy data for the earlier period of Muhammadan rule in India and the countries on its North-Western frontier is Major Raverty's \*Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī\*, which with its minute examination of doubtful points, its numerous corrections of chronological errors, and its store of facts drawn from other contemporary writers, makes it invaluable for the purposes of a work like this. Unfortunately this history extends only to about the middle of the thirteenth century, and consequently for the succeeding period we are thrown back on much less trustworthy sources. In converting the Hijra dates into those of our era, pains have been taken to ensure their accuracy. - [Previous: c2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2.4) - [Next: c2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2.6) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) — Minhāj al-Dīn Jūzjānī --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c2.5) · Pramāṇa