A History of the Mahrattas v1.c9.130

v1.c9.130

Dow’s third volume would have been much more valuable had he adopted Khafee Khan as his only authority. The history was written after Aurungzebe’s death; the great blank in the Moghul history, which occurs from the tenth year of that Emperor’s reign, is very indifferently supplied, but after the twenty-third year of the reign, the account is full, and is frequently supported by other authorities, or rather, at that period, serves to corroborate them. [For Khāfī Khān see Elliott and Dowson, vol. vii. (1877).]