Twilight of the Sultanate c3.22

c3.22

Although a single contemporary work on a long period of thirty five years is hardly satisfying, 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; at least nothing has survived. It appears that Sikandar Lodi kept a diary in which his scribes wrote an account of daily occurrences¹⁴ but that is not extant now. Again, although Ferishta claims to have consulted a contemporary work known as *Farhang-i-Sikandarī*, yet his account seems to be only a reproduction of the *Tabqāt-i-Akbarī*, and for the history of the period from 1435 right up to 1526 one has to depend only on secondary sources.