Twilight of the Sultanate c3.3

c3.3

However, while writing on the history of the Sultanate from Tīmūr to Bābur, one has to tread on difficult ground faced as one is with the glaring paucity of *contemporary* historical literature. The contemporary and nearly contemporary sources are indeed so few that it is necessary to study, howsoever briefly, their merits and defects to appreciate the difficulties of one who attempts to write on this period.