Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.21

c3.21

Chapter VIII. gives an account of the Minor Muslim kingdoms. Ferishta is chiefly followed here, and he is a good authority, for he long served in the Deccan. Jonathan Scott translated this part of Ferishta’s history. Mr. Law pays a deserved tribute to the memory of the great statesman, Maḥmūd Gāwān. Unfortunately, Gāwān was put to death by his ungrateful master in 1481 (*Beale’s Oriental Biography*).