Iswari Prasad the first graduate of Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College (Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University

Aligarh Muslim University ,is a residential academic university, established in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as Mohammedan Angelo-Oriental College and later granted the status of Central University by an Act of the Indian Parliament in 1920...

) Aligarh in 1881, was an Indian historian.

He dealt mainly with the Muslim rulers and governments of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, especially with the Mughal

Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire ,‎ or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...

 and Tughluq dynasties. He did extensive work on rulers such as Muhammad bin Tughluq

Muhammad bin Tughluq

Muhammad bin Tughluq was the Turkic Sultan of Delhi from 1325 to 1351. He was the eldest son of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq.He was born in Kotla Tolay Khan in Multan. His wife was daughter of the raja of Dipalpur...

, the Sultan of Delhi, Humayun

Humayun

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one...

, and Aurangzeb

Aurangzeb

Abul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly...

.

Works

• History of medieval India from 647 AD to the Mughal conquest. Allahabad : The Indian press, ltd., 1925

• The Mughal Empire. Allahabad: Chugh Publications, 1974

• A Short History of Muslim Rule in India, from the Advent of Islam to the Death of Aurangzeb: From the Advent of Islam to the Death of Aurangzeb. Allahabad: The Indian press, Ltd., 1965

• A History of the Qaraunah Turks in India. Allahabad: The Indian press, ltd., 1936

• The life and times of Humayun. Bombay [ua] : Orient Longmans, 1956

• India in the eighteenth century. Allahabad: Chugh Publications, 1973

• Hindu - Muslim problems. Allahabad: Chugh Publications, 1974

• L'Inde du 7e au 16e siècle. Traduit sur la 2e edition par H. de Saugy. Paris : de Boccard, 1930 (Histoire du monde ; 8,1)

• The life and times of Maharaja Juddha Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal. New Delhi : Ashish Pub. House, 1975

• History of mediaeval India. Allahabad: The Indian press, ltd., 1976

• History of Indian Timurids. 1 ed. Allahabad : The Indian press, ltd., 1995

• A New History of India. Allahabad : The Indian press, ltd., 1940

External links

• Aligarh Muslim University http://www.amu.ac.in,