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Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society) (Volume 1)

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Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott became a private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings in 1783. A gifted orientalist, he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, returned to England in 1785, and a year later published the first of his many translations, Memoirs of Eradut Khan , shedding light on the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century. This two-volume work, published in 1794, narrates the fortunes of the Islamic kingdoms in southern India from the thirteenth century onwards. Volume 1 comprises a translation of the work of the Persian chronicler Ferishta , documenting the history of the Deccan Plateau to the end of the sixteenth century.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Paperback

Release: February 28, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781108056380

Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests (Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society) (Volume 1)

0/5 ( ratings)

Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott became a private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings in 1783. A gifted orientalist, he was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, returned to England in 1785, and a year later published the first of his many translations, Memoirs of Eradut Khan , shedding light on the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century. This two-volume work, published in 1794, narrates the fortunes of the Islamic kingdoms in southern India from the thirteenth century onwards. Volume 1 comprises a translation of the work of the Persian chronicler Ferishta , documenting the history of the Deccan Plateau to the end of the sixteenth century.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Paperback

Release: February 28, 2013

ISBN 13: 9781108056380

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