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Name
  
Pringle Kennedy

Role
  
Author

Died
  
1925


Books
  
A History of the Great Moghuls, Or A History of the Badshahate of Delhi from 1398 A.D. to 1739: With an Introduction Concerning the Mongols and Moghuls of Central Asia

Pringle Kennedy (1855–1925) was an author and barrister. He wrote 2 books (during 1905–1925) for which he is best known:

  • A History of the Great Moghuls (Or A History of the Badshahate of Delhi From 1398 AD To 1739), in 2 volumes, during 1905–1911.
  • Arabian Society at the Time of Muhammad, published in 1926 by Thacker, Spink & Co. (Calcutta, India).
  • Pringle Kennedy has observed (Arabian Society at the Time of Muhammad, pp. 8–10, 18-21): "Muhammad was, to use a striking expression, the man of the hour."

    In 1908, the young Bengali revolutionary, Khudi Ram Bose, an 18-year-old, was hanged for throwing a bomb at the carriage of Pringle Kennedy and killing his wife and daughter.

    Pringle Kennedy died in 1925.

    References

    Pringle Kennedy Wikipedia