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² The word Mongol is derived from "Mong" meaning brave and courageous. Mughal is used by Muslim historians, while Mongol and Tartar are used by European writers. "It denoted, in the first place a group of tribes or nations who composed the armies of the northern invaders, with little or no reference to their racial origin; and secondly, at the time of Babar, it was regarded as something scarcely better than a term of contempt." (Intro. *Tarikh-i-Rashidi* Elias and Ross, pp. 88-89.