[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935) › c4.s2.t2.1 # Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t2.1 Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c4.s2.t2.1 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s2.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t2.1) Before we take leave of historical literature, we wish to digres for a moment on the historical value of the books of Amir Khusrau and his estimate as a historian. We have derived a large part of our information from his work alone. He has composed at least three poems and one book of prose—the Qiran-us-Sa'dain, the Miftah-ul-futuh (or Fath-ul-futuh), the Nuh Sipahr, and the Khaza'in-ul-futuh respectively, of a professedly historical character, besides numerous other poems. If we add to these books his poem called Dewalrani Khizr Khan which, though a romantic story, is intermixed with contemporary historical events, and the Tughluq-nama which deals with the rise and fall of Khusrau Khan the usurper and the accession of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq, the number of his historical books amounts to six, which give us a more or less connected account of an interesting period of about forty years (1285—1325) in which the author lived and personally witnessed most of the events related.¹ - [Previous: c4.s2.t1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t1.19) - [Next: c4.s2.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t2.2) - [Up: c4.s2.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t2) ## Cites (1) - [Nuh sipihr](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.adab.nuh-sipihr) — Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c4.s2.t2.1) · Pramāṇa