The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c24.2

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Among the tribes who rose against Muizzuddin in 1206 in the western Punjab was the Khokar, whom Briggs (*trans. Ferishta*, I, p. 183-4) identified with the Gakkar; this was also done in the *JASB*, (1871, p. 67). The Gakkar however do not come into prominence until the reign of Babur. The error was corrected in the *IA*, (1907, p. 1-7) and also in Rose : *Glossary of the Punjab Tribes and Castes*, (II, p. 54). Raverty also questioned the identification in his *Notes on Afghanis-tan*, pp. 367.