The Nāṣirī Generations 182.10

182.10

I must mention before finishing this, I fear, tiresome note, that ELPHINSTONE does not perpetrate the monstrous blunder I have been dilating on. He very properly calls the Turkish slaves, the "Slave Dynasty;" and the others under their proper designations. I do not say slaves in a contemptuous sense, far from it, for they were most able rulers, and many of them were of as good descent as their master; but they were not Patans nor did they belong to a Patan dynasty. It was however left for the President of the Archaeological Section, at the late Oriental Congress [on the authority of Major-Gen. A. Cunningham probably] to crown this edifice of errors with "Ghori Pathans," "Khilji Pathans," "Tughlak Pathans," and "Afghans" recorded—who became the heirs of his dominion, and the august brows of whom became encircled with the imperial diadem of that sovereign; and through whose sway the signs of the lights of the Muhammadan faith remained on the records of the different parts and tracts of the territories of Hindustan: and may such evermore continue! The Almighty's mercy be on those passed away, and may He prolong the empire of the remainder!