This book is an attempt to treat the history of Delhi as I had already treated the history of some of the states of Rajputana in a former book, From the Land of Princes. The principal sources from which it has been taken are, first and foremost, the eight volumes of the ‘History of India as Told by its Own Historians’ (edited by Elliot and Dawson); Ferishta’s ‘ History of Hindustan ’; the Memoirs of Babar; the Memoirs of Gul-badan Begam; the Ain-i-Akbari, and Akbarnameh; Manucci’s ‘ Storia do Mogor ’; Hawkins’ Voyages ; Sir T. Roe’s Embassy; and Bernier’s Travels. Among modern writers, Todd’s ‘ Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han ’; Elphinstone’s History of India;
Keene’s ‘ Turks in India,’ and History of India; Erskine’s ‘Babar and Humayun’; Grant Duff’s History of the Marathas S. Lane Poole’s * Mediaeval India ’; J. B. Cunningham’s ‘ The Sikhs’; W. L. Macgregor’s ‘Sikhs’; Forrest’s Cities of India ’; and Fanshawe’s ‘ Delhi.