| Ferishta's History of Dekkan, from the First Mahummedan Conquests 2 Volume Set Contributor(s): Ferishta (Author), Scott, Jonathan (Editor), Scott, Jonathan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1108056407 ISBN-13: 9781108056403 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $130.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 954.025 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal A |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 7.1" W x 10.1" (3.80 lbs) 1004 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Serving in Bengal as a captain of the East India Company, Jonathan Scott (1753-1829) 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 (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), 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 (1560-1620), documenting the history of the Deccan Plateau to the end of the sixteenth century. Volume 2 covers the expansion of the Mughal empire, its decline and the foundation of independent kingdoms, concluding with a history of Bengal. |