Twilight of the Sultanate c16.s3.36

c16.s3.36

However, the Persian literature of the day was deficient in one major sphere—historical literature. Ever since the foundation of Turkish rule in Hindustan, many works of historical merit were produced, so that from the *Tājul Ma'āsir* of Hasan Nizāmī to the systematic treatise of Shams Sirāj 'Afīf a continuous history of two centuries is available to us. In fact there are various contemporaneous accounts for the reigns of the Khaljīs and the Tughlaqs. But in the fifteenth century there is only one contemporary work, Yahyā bin Sarhindī's *Tārīkh-i-Mubārak Shāhī*, dealing with the first thirty-four years of the Saiyyad rule. Although a single contemporary work covering a long period of about thirty-four years is hardly enough for giving a correct picture of the times, yet at least it is there. For the next three generations, in fact till the coming of Bābur, very little seems to have been written, and the period under review is sadly lacking in historical literature.