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² Briggs, Firishta, I, p. 18; see also *Cambridge History of India*, III, pp. 15-16. Mahmud’s contemporary, Al Utbi, however, makes no mention of any such confederacy in the *Ta’rikh-i-Yamini* (Elliot, II, p. 23). The mention of Delhi indeed throws an element of doubt upon Firishta’s late account, for at this period it was a comparatively obscure town. It is significant that Utbi omits Delhi in the campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni and Alberuni is also silent about it.