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¹⁹¹ Tripathi, *op. cit.*, 2. This view is shared by a number of eminent historians like J.N. Sarkar (*History of Aurangzib*, III, 296-97), Ishwari Prasad (*Mediæval India*, 509), T.P. Hughes (*Dictionary of Islam*, 711), *Encyclopædia of Islam*, I, 959. I. H. Qureshi (*Administration of the Sultanate of Delhi*, 42), however, does not subscribe to this view.