History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c14.s1.13

c14.s1.13

The provincial histories of India supplement the information contained in general histories. The histories of Sindh, the Tarīkh-i-Māsūmī, the Tuhfatuh-al-Kirām, the Tārīkh-i-Tāhiri and others have been translated copiously in Elliot's History, Vol. I. The Khudabaksh Library possesses manuscript copies of the Tarīkh-i-Māsūmī and the Tuhfatuh-al-Kirām which I have compared with Elliot's translations. For Bengal the only connected history is the Riyāz-us-Salātīn of Ghulām Husain completed in 1788 A.D. but it is full of inaccuracies and misstatements of facts. In describing the history of Bengal I have relied upon contemporary authorities and the evidence of coins and inscriptions. The numerous articles on Bengal history published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal have also been utilised. Stewart's History of Bengal does not go far enough and is inaccurate both in facts and chronology.