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See also the "Travellers' Views" section: [on this site]
=Bhagavata Purana (c.900's), a transcreated modern version by a disciple of Swami Prabhupada: [site] (also with modern illustrations and sung words) =Albiruni's great book Tarikh al-Hind (c.1030, Ghazni), trans. by Edward C. Sachau (1910): volume 1: [site]; volume 2: [site]; another site with small excerpts only: [site] =Viveka Chudamani, a popular Vedantin work: [site] ='Ali ibn Hamid Kufi, Chach-namah (1216/7), on Muhammad bin Qasim's conquest of Sindh: [site]; volume 2 of the history of Sind by the same translator: [site] =Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
(1253-1325), The Khaza'in ul-Futuh (c.1311),
trans. by Muhammad Habib (1931); a panegyric on the
campaigns of Ala ud-Din Khilji: [site] =Minhaj ud-Din, Tabaqat-i Nasiri,
on the brief career of Sultan Raziyah (r.1236-1240): [on this site] =Ibn Battuta, 1300's: his chapters on India, trans. by S. Lee (1829): [on this site]; an excellent French version: [site] =Sharf ud-Din Maneri Makhdum ul-Mulk, Shaikh (d.1371 or 1381), Maktubat-i Sa'adi (Letters to Sa'adi), trans. by Baijnath Singh (1909): [site] =Hatha Yoga Pradipika, 15th c., by Svatmarama, "the classical manual on hatha yoga"; Sanskrit text, academically-endorsed English translation by Brian Dana Akers, and illustrations, downloadable in PDF format from: [site] =Ananga Ranga by Kalyana Malla, 1500's, in the translation by Richard Burton (1885): [site] =the BABUR-NAMA =Excerpts from the Babur-nama, prepared (with miniature paintings to illustrate it) by Prof. Dan Waugh of the Univ. of Washington: [site]
=Humayun: The Tezkereh al Vakiat or Private Memoirs of the Emperor Humayun, by Jouher, trans. by Charles Stewart (1904) [Jauhar Aftabchi was a "confidential domestic" of Humayun's]: [site] =Mirat ul-Memalik, by Sidi Ali Reis, c.1557. Account of his visit to Humayun's court, and many other places: [on this site] =Abu'l-Fazl 'Allami (1551-1602): some excerpts from the Akbar-Nama and the A'in-i Akbari, the masterpieces of Akbar's great chronicler: [on this site]; the complete text of the Akbar-nama [site] and of the A'in-e Akbari [site] =Faizi, Abu'l Fazl's brother, composed a series of letters addressed to Akbar; they are quoted in Elliot and Dowson: [site] =Father Monserrate, S.J. (1591): an excerpt from his account of his stay in Akbar's court: [on this site] =Bada'uni, 'Abd ul-Qadir (d.1615), the other great historian of Akbar's reign, who took a very dim view of it in his Muntakhab ut-Tavarikh (Chosen among the Histories) (c.1595/6): [site] =Ahmad ul-'Umri Turkman, [romantic stories about Baz Bahadur and Rupmati] (c.1599): [site] =Guru Granth Sahib, c.1600, in an older translation: [site]; and in a concordance version: [site] =Qissa-e Sanjan
(c.1600), a story about how the Parsis migrated to
India in 936: [site] =Mir Muhammad Ma'sum 'Nami' (d.c.1606/7), Tarikh-i Sind (1599/1600), a history of Sindh from Muhammad bin Qasim onwards: [site] =Firishtah, Tarikh-i Firishtah (1609/10), a history of Muslim rulers in India up to his time: [site] =Jahangir-Nama (Tuzuk-e Jahangiri), the memoirs of Jahangir (r.1605-26) in the Rogers-Beveridge translation (1909-14): [vol. 1]; [vol. 2]; also [site]; in the Price translation (1829): [site] =Harkaran Kanbu Multani, Insha-i Harkaran (Literary work of Harkaran) (1625-31), a book of models for diplomatic correspondence under Jahangir: [site] =Tukaram, the Marathi bhakti saint-poet (c. earlier 1600's): [site] =Pietro della Valle (1586-1652), The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta (1650); excerpts from the 1665 translation: [on this site] =Shaikh Inayat-ullah Kanbu (d.1671), Bahar-i danish (Springtime of Knowledge) (1651), a free adaptation of the Shuka-saptati into Persian: [site] =Anon. (wrongly
attributed to Muhsin Fani), Dabistan-e mazahib
(School of Religions) (1654-57), an imaginative
account of South Asian religious sects of the period:
[site] ="Aurangzeb goes to Kashmir," from Mogul India, or Storia do Mogor, by Niccolao Manucci (c.1652-80), trans. and edited by William Irvine, 1907-08: [on this site]
='Iradat Khan 'Vazih' (d.1716), Tarikh-e 'Iradat Khan (1714), trans. by Jonathan Scott (1786); a memoir of the seven years following Aurangzeb's death: [site] =Munshi Salim-ullah, Tavarikh-e Bangalah (Histories of Bengal) (1764), trans. by Francis Gladwin (1788) [a history of Bengal from 1695 to 1756]: [site] =Shaikh 'Ali 'Hazin' (d.1766), Tazkirah ul-ahval (Memorial of the Times) (1741/2), the memoirs of a Persian poet who spent some time in India: [site] =Shams ud-din Faqir (d.1769), Masnavi-i Valih va Sultan (1747), a Persian romance: [site] =ROBERT KERR, ed. General
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