SCOTT, JONATHAN
FERISHTA'S HISTORY OF DEKKAN
Year: 1794
Size: 8.5 x 10 inches
FROM THE FIRST MAHUMMEDAN CONQUESTS: WITH A CONTINUATION FROM OTHER NATIVE WRITERS, OF THE EVENTS IN THAT PART OF INDIA, TO THE REDUCTION OF ITS LAST MONARCHS BY THE EMPEROR AULUMGEER AURUNGZEBE: ALSO, THE REIGNS OF HIS SUCCESSORS IN THE EMPIRE OF HINDOSTAN TO THE PRESENT DAY: AND THEHISTORY OF BENGAL, FROM THE ACCESSION OF ALIVERDEE KHAN TO THE YEAR 1780.COMPRISED IN SIX PARTS IN TWO VOLUMES
First Edition
Year: 1794
Size: 21.7 x 25.9 cm (8.5 x 10 inches)
Printed by: J. and W. Eddowes, large 4to.
Number of Printed Pages:
Volume I: XIII+110 Pages
Volume II: II+460 Pages
A landmark in Indian historiography. First edition of Jonathan Scott’s important English translation of Ferishta’s late 16th-century Persian history of India, one of the most authoritative sources on the Deccan and the Mughals. Published at Scott’s own expense in his native Shrewsbury, the work reflects his deep engagement with Indo-Persian scholarship. Scott served with the East India Company, acted as Persian translator during the First Anglo-Maratha War, and in 1783 was appointed private Persian translator to Governor-General Warren Hastings—who encouraged his historical research on the Mughal period.
Drawing on materials collected by his brother Captain Richard Scott and by Lieutenant-Colonel Henri Polier, Scott supplemented Ferishta’s narrative with leading contemporary sources: chiefly Mubarik-Allāh Inādat Khān for the later Deccan history and Ghulām Husayn Khān Tabātābʾī for Bengal. A significant edition, handsomely produced.
BINDING: Contemporary half leather over marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, gilt decoration on spine.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
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