Photo: Kandukuru Nagarjun from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0A general history of the Muslim rulers of India, strongest on the Deccan sultanates and their wars with Vijayanagara.
Firishta retells Mahmud’s attack on Somnath in 1026, the battles of Tarain with Prithviraj, and the long wars of the Bahmanis and their successors with Vijayanagara, ending with the battle of Talikota in 1565 and the death of Aliya Rama Raya.
Written late but from many sources now lost, it is the standard narrative for the Deccan wars and is widely used for earlier events too.
ChronicleThe temple chronicle of Shri Jagannath: the kings of Odisha, the rites of the temple and the dangers it passed through.
ChronicleA court history of Sabuktigin and his son Mahmud of Ghazni, written while Mahmud was still raiding Bharat.
ChronicleA study of Hindu learning by a foreign scholar: philosophy, the Gita, Patanjali, astronomy, the calendar, the Puranas, weights and measures and customs.
ChronicleA Sanskrit chronicle in eight books (tarangas), nearly 8,000 verses, of the kings of Kashmir from the earliest times to Kalhana’s own day.
ChronicleA Sanskrit mahakavya by Jayanaka, a Kashmiri poet at the court of Prithviraj Chauhan, written in the king’s lifetime.
ChronicleThe account of Sindh under the Brahmana king Chach and his son Dahir, and of its conquest by Muhammad bin Qasim in 711–712.
ChronicleThe court chronicles of the Ahom kingdom, kept year by year for six centuries from the arrival of Sukaphaa in 1228.
ChronicleA general history ending with the Delhi Sultanate, the main source for the Ghurid conquest of north India.
