Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
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Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat (1499 or 1500-1551) was a military general, ruler of Kashmir, and a historical writer.
He was a Turkic speaking prince who wrote in Persian[1] and Chagatai languages. He governed Kashmir from 1540 to 1551[2], when he was killed in battle.
He first campaigned in Kashmir in 1533, on behalf of Sultan Said Khan, of Kashgar. He drove out Kamran, brother of Babur.[3]
He returned in 1540, fighting for the Mughal Emperor Humayun[4], this time for a military takeover with local co-operation. This was shortly after Humayun's 1540 defeat at the battle of Kanauj, where Dughlat was also on the losing side.
His historical work Tarikh-i-Rashidi is a personal memoir combined with a Central Asian history. It was translated into English in 1895 by Ney Elias and Edward Denison Ross. Among other events, the Tarikh-i-Rashidi describes the founding of the Kazakh Khanate in 1456 and Muhammad Haidar Dughlat's personal encounter with one of the early Kazakh rulers, namely Kasym Khan.
[edit] Reference
- Mansura Haidar (translator) (2002), Mirza Haidar Dughlat as Depicted in Persian Sources
[edit] Notes
- ^ René Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia (1970 translation), p. 497.
- ^ List of Rulers: South Asia | Thematic Essay | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- ^ Mughal Empire 1526-1707 by Sanderson Beck
- ^ Shahzad Bashir, Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval And Modern Islam (2003), p. 236.
