The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c11.160

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³ Extract Trans. in *Elliot*, I, pp. 343-45. The author ‘Alī Shīr Qāni‘, observes in an earlier passage ‘that historians, observing their first appearance after Al-ī-Tamīn, the last governor of the ‘Abbāṣids, date the rule of the tribe from that time.’ *Elliot*, on p. 485, wrongly puts the tradition of the arrival of the Samara tribe in Sind in the 2nd century A. H.