South Asia E Britain & India E HOMEPAGES F East-West Encounters
SOUTH ASIA |
PRIMARY SOURCES |
Islam's impact - 950 to 1740s |
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| Subuktigin's campaigns (986-88) | Subuktigin's first & second invasion of India. |
| Tarikhu-s Subuktigin (990s) | Subuktigin's Assault on Hansi |
| Mahmud of Ghazni (1001) | Final defeat of Jaipal & his Indian allies at Peshwar |
| Tarikh-i Firishta (1008) | Mahmud's defeat of Indian confederacy at Peshwar |
| Mahmud - campaigns (1009) | Bhimnagar Kangra (a) (b), Bhatia, Multan, Narain |
| Tarikh Yamini (?) | Embassy from India to Mahmud in Ghazna |
| Tarikh Yamini (1013) | Mahmud's conquest of Nardin |
| Khulasatu-t Tawarikh (1014) | Mahmud's attack on Thaneswar |
| Mahmuds camapigns (1018-19) | Re. Punjab, Jammu, Kanauj & Mathura (a) (b) (e) |
| Mahmud's campaigns (1023-24) | Somnath, accounts (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) |
| Mirati Mas'udi (1024) | Aftermath of Mahmud's attack on Somnath |
| Alberuni (1030) | Kitab al-Hind ('India'), PDF, section |
| Jamaspi Namak (11th) | On the People of Hindustan, China, etc. |
| Said al-Andalusi (11th) | Categories of Nations, ch. 5, Indian science, ditto |
| Tilopa [986-1069] | Life; Mahamudra Instruction, ditto, ditto to Naropa |
| Naropa (1016-1100) | The View, Mahamudra summary to Marpa |
| Basavanna (1100s) | Vacanas, Karnataka (SW India) |
| Mahadevi-yakka (1100s) | Karnataka mystic, also (a), (b) (c) Female |
| Nuzhatu-l Mushtak (early 12th) | Idrisi, Description of Indians |
| Benjamin of Tudela (1167) | Travels, critical edition of whole book |
| Qutb-ud-din (1192-94) | Campaigns against Delhi and Benares (a), (b) |
| Tabakat-i Nasiri (1193) | Muhammad Bakhtiyar's Bihar raid & Nalanda sack |
| Taju-l Ma'asir (1205) | Qutb-ud-din/Muhammad Ghūri's Punjab campaign |
| Taju-l Ma'asir (c. 1213) | Īltutmish’s capture of Jalor |
| al-Idrisi (early 12th) | Nuzzzhatu-l Mushtak, extract on Indians |
| Pir Shams (1200-1250?) | The 14 Jewels, Ismaeli missionary |
| Jayadeva (13th) | Dasavatara Stotra (Gita Govinda), Vishnu avatars |
| Tabakat-i Nasiri (1232-33) | Sultan Īltutmish conquest of Gwailor and Malwa |
| Tabakat-i Nasiri (1248-60) | Nāsir-ud dīn Mahmūd's military campaigns |
| Sheikh Farid (died 1266) | Sufi verses contained in the Sikh Adi Granth |
| Marco Polo (1271-94) | Travels, esp sections 3.12-3.30 |
| Tazjiyatu-l Amsar (1298) | Sultan 'Alau-d dīn's Invasion of Gujarat |
| Amir Khusro (1253-1325) | Persian poet at Delhi, Sufi, qawwali, snippet, riddle |
| Tarikh-i 'Alai (1303-1310) | Alau-d dīn's Conquests |
| Ibn Batuta (1330s/40s) | Travels in India, Indian Ocean |
| Lalla (14th cenury) | Vakhs mystic song, bits (a),(b),(c),(d),(e) Female |
| Avaiyar (14th century) | Vinayagar Agaval, Tamil Nadu, Female |
| Matsyendranath ?? |
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| Goraknath ?? | Siddha Siddhanta Paddhat |
| John de Mandeville (c. 1360?) | Travels, (ditto 'Project Guttenberg'), 'india' cont. |
| Pir Sadardeen (1300-1416?) | Buj Niranjan, Boudh awatar, context-notes french, Bavan Bodh, Sahi Samrani, Poems, (a),(b), (c) |
| Firuz Shah (1351-1388) | deeds, Delhi Sultanate |
| Vidyapati (1400 c.) | Love songs to Krishna |
| Timur (1397/98) | Invasion of India in Malfuzat-i Timuri, Zafar-nama |
| Nikitin (1468-74) | Diary PDF, ditto no footnotes, extract |
| Imam Shah [born 1430s] | Momin Chetami 'Beware Momins',Kabirudin's son |
| Zubdatu-t Tawarikh (1492) | Sultan’s Sikander Lodi’s religious views |
| Vasco da Gama (1497-98) | Round Africa to India, also Calecut section |
| Chaitanya [1485-1534] | 'lost' Brahma-samhita rediscovery, also Siksastaka |
| Kabir [1440-1515] | Dohar songs, ditto, also (a), (b), & in Sikh Adi Granth |
| Barbosa (1518) | Extract on Sati 'widow-burning' in Narsyngua |
| Paes (1520-22) | Narrative, S. India |
| Babur (1526) | Babur-nama extract on Delhi |
| Nanak (1469-1538] | Japji Sahib, Siddha Goshti, On politics |
| Mirabai [1498-1546] | Mystical-love songs, also (a) Female |
| Nuniz (1535-37) | Chronicle, South India |
| Zubdatu-t Tawarikh (1542) | Sultan Ibrahim’s assault on the fort of Raisin |
| Guru Ram Das Suhi | Select Writings: Lawan |
| Guru Amar Das | Anand |
| Guru Tegh Bahadur | Gun Gobind gaio nahin janamu akarth kin |
| Xavier (1543) | Letter from India, to the Jesuits at Rome |
| Tarikh-i Rashidi (1546/47) | Muhammad Haidar , Kashmir and its religions |
| Xavier (1549) | Letter from Goa |
| Purnananda (16th) | Sat-Cakra-Narupana |
| Bhai Gurdas born 1551 | Vara |
| Gulbadan (1552 c.) | Daughter of Babur Female |
| Sidi Ali Reis (1557) | Mirat ul Memalik 'The Mirror of Countries' |
| Tabakat-i Akbar-shahi (1564) | Āsaf Khān's raid on Gondwāna |
| Tarikh-i Tahiri (1565) | Attacks on Thatta by Portuguese |
| Tabakat-i Akbar-shahi (1567) | Akbar's assault on Chitor |
| Tarikh-i Tahiri (1575 c.) | Sacking of Thatta by Mirza Baki |
| Beg Lar Nama (late 1500s) | Sacking of 'Umarkot by Mir Abu-l Kasim |
| Fitch (1583) | Re. Bombay, 1st Englishman to visit India |
| Elizabeth I (1600) | Charter to E. India Company |
| Bhogar (1600s ?) | 7000 verses, first 80, Tamil alchemist-poet |
| Dadu Dayal [1603 died] | songs on Realisation, Sahaja, cont |
| Goes (1603) | Travel from N. India to China, also ditto |
| Jerome Xavier (1606) | Letter, account of Guru Arjun's Martyrdom |
| Adi Granth | 'Khalsa Consensus Translation', ditto, ditto |
| Steel & Crowther (1615-16) | Journey… from Ajmeer in India, to Persia ditto |
| Barradas (1616) | Letter, South India |
| Jahangir (1617) | Letter to James, King of England and Scotland |
| Tukaram [1608-49] | Abhangs, also (a), (b),(c)Vishnu mystic |
| Baharistan-i Shahi (1614) | History of Kashmir, esp. medieval 14th-16th |
| Mukhtasiru-t Tawarikh (c. 1630) | General Description of India |
| Mun (1630s?) | England's treasure by foreign trade, E.India Comp. |
| Bernier (1655) | An Account of India and the Great Moghul |
| Dabestan-e Madaheb (1671 c.) | School of religious doctrines, Parsis ch., Sufi bit |
| Tegh Bahadur (died 1675) | Gun Gobind gaio nahin… in Adi Granth |
| Fryer (1672-1681) | India and Persia , unofficial commentary snippets |
| Aurangzeb (c. 1680s) | Fatwa on Jizya Poll Tax |
| Sundardas (1689 died) | Songs, disciple of Dadu Dayal, Sahaja Yoga |
| Hazart Bahu (1693 died) | The Book of Soul, extracts & general background |
| D'Avenant (1697) | An Essay on the East-India Trade |
| Abdul Terani (1699) | Vesakhi account about Sikhs |
| Guru Gobind Singh | |
| Muntakhabu-l Lubab (1714) | Mughal persecution of Sikhs and Hindus |
| Thayumanavar [1706-1742] | Hymns, Tamil |
| Latif Bhitai [1690-1751] | Sufi poem in 'Sufism in Sindh: a way of life' |
before 950 E SOUTH ASIA - PRIMARY SOURCES F 1740s onwards
South Asia E Britain & IndiaE HOMEPAGES F East-West Encounters