Twilight of the Sultanate c3.37

c3.37

Such is the position of chief official histories. The Rajput accounts too are not rich in detail and freely mix fiction with fact. But the works of the religious reformers of the fifteenth century give a good insight into the social life of the period, and the itineraries of foreign travellers like Athnasius Nikitin, 'Abdur Razzāq, Nicolo Conti and Santo Stefano contain an instructive account of the social and economic life of the fifteenth century. The *Memoirs of Bābur* is a good source-book for the political and social conditions obtaining in the early sixteenth century.