Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s3.14
Twilight of the Sultanate c19.s3.14
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c19.s3.14
Thus the ancestry of the Lodīs and all other Afghan tribes is traced to the legendary Qais of the Bani Israel, to Egyptians, to Persians, etc. and “there is no matter more earnestly debated wherever Pathans assemble than that of the origins of this people”.¹⁰