Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c2.4

c2.4

Muhammadan emperors, chiefs and private individuals of India to promote learning and diffuse education among the people of this country. Such efforts should be appreciated apart from the results achieved, and the credit due to them should in no way be diminished by the meagreness of those results. The present work is a history of such efforts and an attempt to show in a connected narrative that the long roll of Muslim rulers, emperors and invaders from Maḥmūd downwards were not altogether inattentive to the literary interests of the people, and that private individuals also were not quite inactive in this direction.