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Unlike Indo-Aryan and Dravidian inscriptions, the Islamic inscriptions do not constitute a major primary source of historical information, not only because they are of no great antiquity but, more importantly, because (unlike earlier times) extensive historical chronicles are available for the period concerned. Nonetheless, Indo-Muslim epigraphy is important as a source of corroborative and supplementary historical and cultural data.⁹⁰