This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...- Akbernaraeh" by Abul Fazl, the " Muntakhab ul Tawarikh," Khan Khan, and the " Kholasat ul Tawarikh." Abul Fazl, in this reign, shows all his usual merits, and more than his usual defects. (See p. 122.) Every event that had a tendency to take from the goodness, wisdom, or power of Akber, is passed over, or misstated; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...- Akbernaraeh" by Abul Fazl, the " Muntakhab ul Tawarikh," Khan Khan, and the " Kholasat ul Tawarikh." Abul Fazl, in this reign, shows all his usual merits, and more than his usual defects. (See p. 122.) Every event that had a tendency to take from the goodness, wisdom, or power of Akber, is passed over, or misstated; and a uniform strain of panegyric and triumph is kept up, which disgusts the reader with the author, and almost with the hero. Amidst these unmeaning flourishes, the real merits of Akber disappear, and it is from other authors that we learn the motives of his actions, the difficulties he had to contend with, and the resources by which they were surmounted. The gross flattery of a book written by one so well acquainted with Akber's disposition, and submitted, it appears, to his own inspection, leaves an impression of the vanity of that prince, which is almost the only blot on his otherwise admirable character. The " Akberndmeh" was brought down by Abul Fazl nearly to the time of his own death, in the forty-seventh year of the reign, and was continued for the remaining period of upwards of three years by a person named Enayet Ullah, or Mohammed Salia. I could never have availed myself of this work without the aid of a manuscript translation of Lieutenant Chalmers of the Madras army, in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society. The " Muntakhab ul CHAP. Tawarikh" was finished in the end of the fortieth year of the HI reign. It is written by Abdul Kadir of Badayun, and is a his tory of the Mahometan kings of India. The facts are chiefly taken from the " Tabakati Akberi," down to the thirty-seventh year of Akber's reign, when that book ends. The whole of that reign, however, has many add...
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