A History of India under the Two First Sovereigns of the Hous... - 9781108046190

A History of India under the Two First Sovereigns of the House of Taimur, Bber and HumyunAuthor(s): William Erskine\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108046190, 978-1108046190\nSynopsis\nThis two-volume work by the Scots orientalist and historian William Erskine [tel] was published posthumously by his son in 1854. It describes the history of India under the Mughal rulers Babur and his son Humayun, descendants of Taimur (Tamburlane), and is acknowledged as one of the earliest western scholarly accounts of Mughal rulers in India. Erskine had also translated the Memoirs of Emperor Babar [tel] and completed John Malcolm's biography of Lord Clive [tel]. Volume 1 begins with preliminary remarks on Indian history, and a general account of the three great divisions of the Tartar tribes. The history of Babar (Babur) begins with his accession to his ancestral possessions in Central Asia in 1495, aged twe.