A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c6.47

c6.47

Another work, also written from the standpoint of Bijapur, is the *Tazkirat-ul-muluk* by a Persian merchant from Shiraz, known as Shirāzī on that account. His business brought him to Sagar on the Krishna in 1560, and he entered Adil Shahi service in 1574. He wrote his work between the years 1608 and 1610; apparently of not much value for Bāhmanī affairs, it is a contemporary account of some aspects of Bijapur history giving many details not otherwise known. Of the four historians noticed here, three came directly from Persia and all of them wrote in Persian, signal proof of the great influence of Persia on Indo-Muslim culture. 'Abd Allāh Shirāzī Wassaf, a Persian writing in Persia early in the fourteenth century, had access to information on contemporary occurrences in the Tamil country, and he gives some valuable data on the civil war in the Pandyan country and conditions of trade prevalent at that time.