The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c22.6
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c22.6
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c22.6
Iftāl. From a passage in John Surman’s Diary, C. R. Wilson, “Early Annals”, ii, 2nd part, 26, this word seems to have been used for an advanced force or vanguard: “Meer Jumlah has arrived att Attayah (Iṭāwah) and his Aftally consisting of 12,000 horse att Shasadpore (Shahzādpur)”. Steingass, 80, has, Iftāl: “dispersed, scattered, rent, torn”.