Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s3.2

c9.s3.2

⁶⁵ Yahyā and all other chroniclers except Ferishta have Bajwara. Yahyā also adds that it was a dependency of Jalandhar (T.M.S., 189). Bajwara lies 1½ miles east of Hoshiarpur and 25 miles N.E. of Jalandhar. (Hunter, Imp. Gaz., II, 439). Only Ferishta makes it Machchīwara. Machchīwara lies 23 miles south of Ludhiana on the Sutlej and is said to be a very ancient city having been mentioned in the *Mahābharata*. Ferishta is mistaken and the place of the Pretender was certainly Bajwara. Also see Ranking's note in Badaonī, I, 380; T.A., De, note 297 and Rennel's map.