History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.23

c8.23

*Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* like Badāoni, but confuses the whole thing by a misreading of the texts of Barani and the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi*. He adheres to the order of events followed by Barani, but adds something more to the information, supplied by Barani for which there is no warrant. According to him, the first migration took place after Bahā-al-Din's rebellion, though his date is quite wrong, when the Sultan carried the whole population, men and women of all classes to Daulatabad and paid them the prices of their houses in Dihli and the expenses of the journey. The second migration occurred when the Sultan returned to Dihli after the suppression of the revolt of Bahrām Aibā. He sent his mother with the wives of amirs and military men to Daulatabad and also the inhabitants of Dihli so that the old capital became a desert in which only the cries of foxes, jackals and other wild animals were heard. This is clearly a confused mixture of the texts of Barani and Yahyā. From the accounts of these two writers who are not contemporary, certain modern writers have constructed the plausible theory that the first migration consisted in the transfer only of the court and the official machinery and the second in the removal of the people of Dihli. We may dismiss at once Badaoni and Firishta who are later writers who have adopted the versions of Barani and the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi*. The author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* is also a secondary authority, but he deserves more attention because he wrote only about eighty years after Muhammad's death, and because he must have utilised certain history or histories other than Barani's *Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi*, for he supplies at times information for which we look in vain in Barani, information which is amply corroborated by other contemporary writers and the evidence of coins.