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Tarikh i Kashmir

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The Tarikh-i-Kashmir (History of Kashmir) refers to several history books of Kashmir's Sultanate period, some of them lost and partially used as sources for the others.

Surviving histories

The surviving contemporary histories of the Sultanate are:

  • Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Sayyid Ali completed in 1579;
  • Tarikh-i-Kashmir by an anonymous writer (Aumer 287) written in 1590;
  • Baharistan-i-Shahi, also anonymous, written in the time of Jahangir;
  • Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Hasan b. Ali Kashmiri also written in the time of Jahangir;
  • Tarikh-i-Kashmir by Haidar Malik Chaduara completed in 1620-21.

    • Other histories of Kashmir are eighteenth and nineteenth century abridgements of the above works.

    References

    Tarikh-i-Kashmir Wikipedia
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