Description
THE purpose of the present book is to provide a general history of Muhammadan rule in India up to the death of Aurangzeb for the use of teachers in secondary schools and students in Indian Colleges. The want of a book of this kind has long been felt The older histories of the middle ages by European writers have now become inadequate and out of date owing to the rapid progress of knowledge in recent times, tytost of the errors based on imperfect acquaintance with the original sources are repeated in all text-books, and the student of history, who aims at precise knowledge, demands more than what is contained in Elphinstone, Lane-Poole^ and Vincent Smith. Excellent as they are in their own way, they are found sketchy in these days. The author has kept the requirements of the modern student always in view, and he hopes he has done his best to meet them.