The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.346

v3.c20.346

¹ This, a tribal name, is usually transliterated ‘Tughlaq.’ Mr Stanley Lane Poole prefers Taghlak, Sir Aurel Stein (*Ruins of Desert Cathay*) gives the name of the tribe, which inhabits the neighbourhood of Khotan, as Taghlik, doubtless representing faithfully the modern pronunciation. I follow the traveller Ibn Batūtah, who is explicit on the point and must have known how the word was pronounced at Delhi in his day, seeing that Muhammad Tughluq was his patron. See *J.R.A.S.*, July, 1922. But Professor D. S. Margoliouth points out that it is also a personal name.