History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c2.4

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Briggs adds in a footnote (I. P. 387):—"The Parwari is a Hindu outcast who eats flesh of all kinds and is deemed so unclean as not to be admitted to build a house within the town." Some European scholars have fallen into great error about Khusrau's caste. James Bird (History of Gujarat, translated from the Mirat-i-Ahmaddi, p. 167) is utterly wrong in saying that Hasan was a Rajput of the Parmar tribe. He confounds the Parwari with the Parmar clan of the Rajputs. Bayley in a footnote in his "Local Muhammadan Dynasties of Gujarat" (p. 41) also wrongly says that the word in the text (referring to the Mirat-i-Ahmadi) seems intended for Parmar and the expressions used with it would rather lead to the belief that the two brothers belonged to some powerful tribe was a prompt response and he never grudged to render the help I needed. My gratitude is in a large measure due to Professor L. F. Rushbrook-Williams but for whose never-failing kindness and support this work would have been impossible. It was he who showed me the way to historical research and but for whose encouragement and assistance, I would have been dealing to-day with litigants and their causes in courts of law. To Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. Ganganatha Jha, the learned Vice-Chancellor of the Allahabad University, I am deeply indebted for help in procuring MSS. from various quarters. I am also grateful to the authorities of the India Office, the Bankipore, the Imperial, and the Asiatic Society of Bengal libraries who always gave me facilities of consulting the MSS. in their possession. To my colleagues of the History Department I am thankful for their suggestions and criticisms.