Twilight of the Sultanate c3.40

c3.40

I am indebted to the Director of Archaeology in India, New Delhi, for the facilities he provided for my study at the excellent library of the Archaeological Department. The Secretary, Oriental Public Library, Patna, was equally helpful. Dr. Raghuvir Sinh was kind enough to lend me the photo-print copies of the *Waqiʻāt-i-Mushtaqī* of the British Museum MS. Add. 11, 633 and of the *Tawārīkh-i-Majlis-Arāi* by Ibrāhīm Batani of the British Museum MS. Add. 21, 911. The latter is an enlarged version of 'Abbās Sherwānī's *Tārīkh-i-Sher Shāhī*, but so far as the Lodī period is concerned it is almost a verbatim reproduction of the genuine *Makhzan-i-Afghānī*. Therefore, wherever Batani's work is quoted in evidence for the Lodi Sultans, it is cited as *Makhzan*.