History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c12.176

c12.176

⁷⁰ Ibn Batūtah, III, p. 295. It had to prepare all the ordinances issuing from the Khalifah, to enter them in the registers, to impress on them the seal of the Khalifah, consisting usually of a passage from the Quran and finally to expedite the despatch. At the head of this office was the *Wazir*. This office exercised not infrequently the highest supervision on political administration. Kremer, p. 236. The functions of this office are not exactly similar to those of the Indian office, but it appears that the latter was an imitation of the former.