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as the date of the rebellion⁶ and this is accepted by the French translators of Ibn Batūtah⁷ and by Edward Thomas. Yule in his ‘*Cathay and the Way Thither*’ accepts 1338-9 as the date of this rebellion.⁸ Hajji-ad-Dabir who follows Barani in this respect writes that the Sultan heard the news of the revolt of Sayyid Ahsan, while he was still in the neighbourhood of Kanauj.⁹ Barani who places the revolt after Fakhrā’s rebellion corrects himself by saying that the Sultan heard the news while he was busy in the districts of Kanauj and Dalmau. The date of Indian historians is proved to be wrong by the testimony of Ibn Batūtah and the evidence of coins. Dr. Hultzsch who carefully examined the coins of the Sultans of Madura has come to the conclusion that Muhammad Tughluq’s authority was recognised in the Deccan till 734 A.H.¹⁰ It is clear from the coins cited by him that they were issued by Muhammad, because they bear upon them the superscription الامام العادل العادل of which the emperor was so fond.¹¹ The first coin of Jalal-al-Din Ahsan Shah is dated 735 A.H. As to the identity of this coin (No. 4 in Dr. Hultzsch’s collection plate opposite to page 680) there can be no doubt, for it bears the same superscription on it as is mentioned by Ibn Batūtah. Further, Ahsan Shah boasted of being a descendant of the Prophet, as the appellation Sayyid signifies, and the superscription contains the words Tāhā and Yāsīn, which occur also in Ibn Batūtah.