Sunday, May 25, 2008

A Happy Result, And Something To Look Forward To

Arun ShourieHow fulsome they have been in commending each other -- the patrons and subalterns!First the significance of Arif Qandhari's Tarikh-i-Akbari : it confirms what we know from Abul Fazl's Akbar Nama, says the eminent historian, it furnishes information we did not have earlier. He then recalls what has been done in regard to Qandhari's history by scholars already : "The Tarikh-i-Akbari has