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∗ For Afghan settlements and their early history,—Atkinson's N. W. P. Gazetteer (1st. ed.), Farrukhabad pp. 152-158, Budaun 105-109, Bareilly 656-671, Bijnor 348-350, Shahjahanpur 142-145. The histories written for these Afghan chiefs by their secretaries are all much later than 1750, while the Persian local histories of this region were composed in the 19th century. They contain many errors, some of which can be corrected from the contemporary histories of the Delhi empire used by me. Afghan sources are the basis of the historical narrative in G. Forster's Journey from Bengal to England ("History of the Rohillas", i. 101-130) and the Life of Hafiz Rahmat Khan (tr. by C. Elliott, 1831.) R. S. Whiteway's Ruhela Afghans (in the Calcutta Review, Vol. LXI, 1875, pp. 201-225), though copiously drawn upon in the N. W. P. Gazetteer, is palpably erroneous in many points and has no source independent of the above. The most valuable and scholarly sketch in the Gazetteer is that of W. Irvine in the Farrukhabad volume, but even that requires correction in the light of the fresh material and criticism accumulated since it was written 60 years ago. For the events and traditions before 1739