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29. C.J. Brown, The Coins of India, Calcutta, 1922, p. 70.

30. H. Nelson Wright, The Coinage and Metrology of the Sultans of Delhi, Delhi, 1936, (pp. 612 catalogue). 67 (commentary). It is only fair to say that Muizzuddin was continuing a tradition of bilingual coinage established by the Ghaznavids.

31. Tabaqat-i Nasiri, ed. Abdul Hayy Habibi, Kabul, 1343, H. II, pp. 31-32. Raverty, the erudite translator of the work into English notices the implications of this statement, Tdbaqat-i Nasiri, tr. Raverti, p. 764). For the date of Tughril's rebellion, see A.B.M. Habibullah, The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India, 2nd (revised) ed., Allahabad, 1961, p. 130.

32. Cf. S.R. Sarma in Aligarh Journal of Oriental Studies, I (I), 1984, pp. 3-4.

33. Journal of Indian History, (JIH), XV (2), 1936, pp. 182-83.

34. Ibn Battuta, Rihia, tr. Mehdi Husain, p. 8.

35. Isami, Futuh'us Salatin, pp. 484-88, Barani, Taraikh-i Firuz Shahi, ed. Saiyid Ahmad Khan, Bib: Ind., Calcutta, 1862, p. 488.

36. Barani, op.cit., p. 505.

37. Isami, op.cit., pp . 464-65.

38. Barani, p. 120.

39. Barani, pp. 216-17.

40. Barani, p. 113.

41. See the Palam Boali Inscription of A.D. 1281 (JASB, XXXXIII (I), 1874 pp. 104ff);

and the Sarban Inscription of 1328 (Mehdi Husain, Rise and Fall of Mohammad Tughlug, London, 1938, pp. 246-47.

42. Barani, p. 546.

43. Ibid., p. 554 (read Sahan for Sipahan).

44. W;H. Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India, Cambridge, 1929, pp. 32, 225, 230.

45. Barani, p. 547.

46. Barani, p. 554.

47. Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, III, pp. 103-105.

48. Nuh Sipffir, ed. Mohammad Wahid Mirza, London, 1950, pp. 151-195.

49. Barani, p. 485; Isami, 472 (where for metrical reasons, perhaps, the name is given as Sargadari, but a reference to heaven in the couplet shows sarg represents swarga.)

50. Isami, p. 515. For Muhammad Tughluq's interest in yogic practices see Ibn Battuta, tr. Mehdi Hasan, p.266.

51. Order issued to officials in 1329. Mr. Simon Digby of Channel Islands, U.K., possesses a dear photograph of the document.

52. Cuningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, III, pp. 103-5.

53. J.H.I. XV (2), 181.

54. H.B.W. Gal-rick in Cunningham, Archaeological Survey Reports, XXIII, pp. 116-7.

55. Fawaid-ul Fawwad, ed. Mohammad Latif Malik, Lahore, 1966. pp.118-19.

56. Ibid., p. 118.

57. Ibid., pp. 417-18; Nizamuddin's preceptor, Farid, told him not to bother with this, not because what the yogi was furnishing him with was wrong, but because he would not have any use for it, since he was not to marry. See also ibid., pp. 404-405.

58. Ibid., pp. 305-306, 308.

59. Ibid., pp. 201-202.

60. Fawaid-ul Fawwad, ed. Muhammad Latif Malik, Lahore 1966, pp. 339-40.

61. Ibid., pp. 278-9.

62. Enquiry, Delhi, New Series II, 2 (Old series. No. II), 1965, pp. 496-7. He contests J.B. Chaudhuri's view on p. 56.

63. In, respectively, the Palam and Sarban inscriptions: see references given above.



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