Baharistan-i-Shahi: A Chronicle of Mediaeval Kashmir
Pandit, K.N.
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Book ID : 7338
ISBN-10 : 81-8339-166-4 / 8183391664
ISBN-13 : 978-81-8339-166-5 / 9788183391665
Place
of Publication :
Srinagar
Year
of Publication :
2013
Edition :
Language : English
25 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
Baharistan-i-Shahi, a Farsi manuscript history of Kashmir by anonymous author and brought down to A.S. 1614, has served as an important and reliable source work for historians from the 17th century to the present day. It remained inaccessible to non-Farsi knowing scholars and historians. Its first English translation with annotations was made in 1991 from a collated text of the two extant and reliable manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library and the British Museum. Exhaustive footnotes were added to that translation to make it readable and useful. The volume in hand is the second edition of its English translation. Some technical modifications have been made in the text with a view to standardize it and bring it at par with international level of translation methodology applicable to works of historical content. Instead of end chapter notes footnotes have been used to make it more readable; contents of each chapter have been expanded and Errata have been eliminated. Other discrepancies have been taken care of. The chronicle begins with a legendary account of the creation of Kashmir mandala with summary treatment of the Hindu period. It is followed by a detailed account of the Shahmiri and Chak Sultans of Kashmir taking the narrative to the year A.D. 1614.
