Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c2: Preface
Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c2
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Preface
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I confess when the present book was first presented as a thesis for Doctorate to the London University, I never suspected that a demand for such studies would arise and I naturally felt relieved when the Asiatic Society of Bengal offered to publish it in 1935. Since then several Indian Universities have included it in their Courses for post-graduate studies in medieval Indian History and Competent scholars, both in India and abroad, have thought fit to includeit in their select bibliographies on the subject. I need not emphasise how small I feel at the generosity of such recognition. In fact just when the number of the Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, which included this article has run out of stock, there is a growing and persistent demand for the supply of this book and I am compelled by fellow teachers and students of various universities to arrange for its immediate publication, even without revision or enlargements. I fully appreciate, however, that a fragmentary sketch of some aspects of social life for only a part of medieval period in no sense meets the demand for a properly integrated and documented study of the subject, and I can only submit that in my humble way I am now preparing for this bigger task. This, however, shall take a little time for making arrangemets for publication of this book. I must express my thanks to Mrs. Ashraf and to my colleague Mr. Nandlal Gupta of Karori Mal College. I regret that for transliteration of Arabic and Persian terms facilities for typography were not locally available.
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KUNWAR MUHAMMAD ASHRAF
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Delhi April 8, 1959