The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c3.11

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Sir Wolseley Haig’s scheme of transliteration in Volume III has been mainly followed though *hamza* has been more sparingly marked in words such as *ta’rīkh* and *Sha’n*, which are pronounced in India to-day as *tārīkh* and *Shān*. Names of places are usually spelt as in the *Imperial Gazetteer of India*, for which special enquiries were made to ascertain the correct modern vernacular form. That form was transliterated according to a uniform plan except in cases where official or English literary usage had established a corruption, such as Calcutta, Bombay or Cawnpore. The index contains a number of alternative forms, sometimes not used in the book, for names often spelt differently or for names newly identified in it.