History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c12.50

c12.50

¹⁶ This was an office to manage the department of agriculture which was organised mainly with a view to mitigate the severity of famine. Barani, Calcutta Text, p. 498. The Lucknow text of Firishta has Amir Koī (p. 140). The word is variously spelt in various histories. In the Arabic History of Gujarat it is Amir Karohi. Briggs makes it Amurgo which is entirely wrong.