Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
Topic: Turkic Invasions and the Delhi Sultanate · NCERT: Class 7, Ch 4 "Turning Tides: The 11th and 12th Centuries"
Meaning
The Tabaqat-i-Nasiri is a Persian chronicle (a history written in order of events) by Minhaj-us-Siraj Juzjani, completed c. 1260. It was named after Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud of Delhi. It covers the Ghurids and the early Delhi Sultanate. It is a key source for how Turkic armies conquered north and east India.
Example
Juzjani describes Bakhtiyar Khilji's attack on a Buddhist centre in Bihar, around the end of the 12th century. He writes that the shaven-headed "Brahmans" there were all killed. These were actually Buddhist monks. He adds that "the whole of that fortress and city was a college… they call a college bihar". In other words, the "fortress" was really a vihara, a Buddhist monastery and place of learning.
Don't confuse with
- Kitab-i-Yamini: al-Utbi's Arabic chronicle of Mahmud of Ghazni's raids in the early 11th century, not of the Ghurid conquest.
Related concepts
- Ghurids
- Muhammad Ghori
- First Battle of Tarain
- Prithviraj Chauhan
- Second Battle of Tarain
- Qutbuddin Aibak
- Bakhtiyar Khilji