[426] Idem. Tūkā Tīmūr, from whom sprang the Khāns of the Crimea, was the youngest son of Jūjī. Cf. Lane-Poole’s Mohammedan Dynasties, p. 233. Tokhtamish, the inveterate foe of Tamerlane, belonged to the Crimean branch of the Khāns of Dasht-i-Kipchāk. The Khānate of Kazan was founded in 1439, on the remains of the Bulgarian Empire, by Ulugh Mohammed of the same line.
[427] Bretschneider, loc. cit.
[428] There seems some confusion on this point; I have followed Veliaminof-Zernof, but Bretschneider does not call this movement a migration of Uzbegs but a flight of the White Horde, whom he says were expelled from their original seats by Abū-l-Khayr. Cf. Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 82.
[429] The results of M. Veliaminof-Zernof’s careful researches into the history of the Kazāks were published in three volumes of the Memoirs of the Eastern Branch of St. Petersburg Archæological Society, under the title of The Emperors and Princes of the Line of Kasim. He called this dynasty the Kasimovski, after Kāsim Khān, the son of Jānībeg. Cf. also Levshin’s Description of the Hordes and Steppes of the Kirghiz-Kazaks, St. Petersburg, 1864. Mīrzā Haydar says: “The Kazāk Sultans began to reign in A.H. 870 (1465), and continued to enjoy absolute power in the greater part of Uzbegistān till the year A.H. 940” (1533). See Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 82.
[430] Tarikh-i-Rashidi, pp. 82 and 92.
[431] Thus according to both the Tārikh-i-Tīmūrī and the Tārīkh-i-Abū-l-Khayr, quoted by Howorth, op. cit. ii. 695.
[432] There is in the British Museum a silver coin of Shaybānī Khān, dated A.H. 910: Merv.
[433] An account of this campaign will be found in the Tarikh-i-Rashidi, p. 243 et seq. The account of the Emperor Bāber’s doings at this period are all the more interesting and valuable from the fact that in the famous Memoirs of Baber a break occurs from the year 1508 to the beginning of the year 1519; though an account is also given in the Tārīkh-i-Ālam-Ārāy of Mirza Sikandar, which was used by Erskine in his History of India.
[434] Lubb ut-Tawārīkh, book III. pt. iii. chap. vi.
[435] Cf. Veliaminof-Zernof, op. cit. p. 247.