The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.247

v3.c20.247

¹ The late Major Raverty, an authority from whom it is seldom safe to differ, protested vigorously against the common error of classing the Khaljīs as Afghāns or Pathāns, but the people of Delhi certainly fell into the error which he condemns. He also inveighs, with much acrimony and less reason, against the plausible identification of the Khaljīs with the Ghilzais, a tribe which claims a Turkish origin and occupies the region originally colonized by the Khaljīs. If the Ghilzais be not Khaljīs it is difficult to say what has become of the latter.