Muntakhab-ut-Tawáríkh
‘Abd-ul-Qádir Badáóní; translated by W. H. Lowe
Badauni’s Persian history of Muslim rule in India, critical of Akbar’s religious policy; volume II reports millennial and Mahdist claims at Akbar’s court.
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Edition and location
‘Abd-ul-Qádir Badáóní, Muntakhab-ut-Tawáríkh, translated from the original Persian by W. H. Lowe, vol. II (Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, Baptist Mission Press, 1884), p. 295 (Internet Archive 11540762bsb, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy, leaf n304), from “In this year low and mean fellows” to “the dignity of something else.” Lowe’s footnote markers omitted (note 1 on Sharíf: “Of Ámul, see above p. 252.”; note 2: “Of God.”); his reference to the Persian text “(P. 287)” retained. Diacritics as printed. Spacing normalized.
vol. II, p. 295