TARIKH - i - BADAUNI or Muntakhab - ut Tawarikh, written by Mulla Abdul-Kadir Malik Shah of Badaun, and finished in 1595. It is a general history of India froin the time of the Ghazuevides to the 40th year of Akbar. It con tains a copious notice of the reign and. character of Akbar, under whom the author lived. — Elliot's India ; Muller's Lectures, p. 143.
TARIKH-i-ELCIII NIZAM SHAH, the history of Nizam Shah's ambassador, by Shah Khurshah, who died A.H. 972. This is a general history of the world, compiled from the best known Arabic and Persian sources. The author, in his account of the Safavi dynasty of Persia, tells us that he was sent by his own sovereign, Nizam Shah, on au embassy to Shah Tamasp, at whose court he remained a long time, and from whom he received an autograph account of his own career ; of this the Elchi makes considerable use in his work, imd it gives it great additional interest.
TARIKH-i-GUZIDA contains a good account , of the Moghul dynasties.
TARIKH-i-HIND, a history of India written by Abu Rihan, a translation from an old Arabic history, made about A.D. 1216 (A.H. 613) by Mahomed, then residing at Uch in Sind. The ancient Arabic seems to have been written before A.D. 753. It is largely drawn upon by Nizam-ud Din, Ferishta, Mir Masum, and others. Chach nama is a Persian work descriptive-of the Arab conquest of Sind. The Arab occupation of Sind was only temporary. On their retreat, the territory reverted to the rule of native princes, and was practically independent until its absorption into the empire during the reign of Akbar, in A.D. 1592, for the successes of MaInnud of Ghazni made no permanent impression on them. Up to the time of Mills:Ailed, the races in Arabia had been quarrelling with and robbing their neighbours. But immediately on his demise, his followers and disciples, whom his teachings had mado brothers, moved with a spirit of unanimity.—Ellioes Ilist. qf p. 9 ; E/phipt. p. 264.
TARIKII-i-KASIIMIIII, a Persian history of Kashmir in MS. Compiled by Hyder Malik, at the command of Sultan Jahangir, A.ii. 1027 (A.D.
1617), from the Sanskrit Raja-Tarangini, and then continued front other sources.
TA RIKII-i-RASHIDI, an account of the Khans Jatali or Moghillistan. and of the Atnirs of Kashgar from the timp of Taghalaq Thnur Khan to A.H. 952. It is the production of a learned and ac complished man, and in the two latter parts of a contetnporary distinctly acquainted with the man and events that he describes. The minute details which the author gives of his own sufferings and the sufferings of his nearest relations dining the period that followed the ascendency of Shaibani Khan in Mawar-u-nallar and Khorasan, of their escapes, adventures, successes, and discomfitures, let us more into the condition of the country and the feelings of the inhabitants than perhaps any other monument extant.' The author, Muhammad Ilyder, commonly called Hyder, was a cousin of Haber, and while a mere boy fought by the latter's side on his victory over the Uzbaks in A.n.-917. Ile attached himself to the fortunes of his cousin, afterwards khan of Kashgar, and per- I formed for him sotne brilliant inilitary services, one of them being a successful invasion of Kashmir. On the death of the khan, Muhammad Hyder, who was in Tibet, hearing that his uncle had been put to death by tho new sovereign, escaped to Lahore, where he was entertained by Baber's son, Karnran Mirza. In A.II. 946 he joined I finnayun, whom Ile endeavoured to persuade to in vade Kashmir, and, being unable to prevail upon him to do so, undertook the expedition himself, made himself master of the country, and ruled it for some years, at first in his own name, and later fill that of liumayun. He was killed in a night attack by soma rebel chiefs in A.tt. 958.
TARIK1I-i-SHER SHAHI or Tuhfat-i-Akbar Shahi, a book by Abbas Khan, sou of Shaikh Ali, Sarwani, written by order of the emperor Akbar. it is valuable WI the writing of a contemporary, but is prolix.—Ellial, II. of 1. iv.