The Nāṣirī Generations 248.2.7

248.2.7

This last compound is an utterly impossible name. There is no uncertainty, and no theory, whatever, in the matter, as might have been seen had the Oriental writers been correctly read, and the difference between the Turks of the two i-maks of Tattar and Mughal been properly understood. I hope I have clearly demonstrated the fact now, because, according to compilers of Indian history, who merely draw their inspirations from Dow, Briggs, and some few others, the Turks with other wholly different races have formed their “Pathan or Afghan Dynasties,” so-called— the Dehli Pathans,” “Jounpoore Pathans,” “Ghori Pathans,” “Khilji Pathans,” “Tughluk Pathans,” &c., of the Oriental Congress of 1874—and which fantastic names, I am lately informed, signify, or, are meant to signify, "Pre-Mughal” dynasties!