[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942) › c2 # The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c2: Preface to the Second Edition The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehlī c2 - **Language:** English ### Preface to the Second Edition ### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2.1) THE present edition contains more information; the text has been enlarged by a fuller discussion of certain topics; the references have been expanded; opinions have been revised in one or two places; one appendix has been added; the bibliography has been brought up to date. ### [c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2.2) I am grateful to a number of scholars for some valuable suggestions, in particular to Shams-u'l-'ulamā al-Ḥāj Maulawī 'Abd-u'r-Raḥmān who drew my attention to a number of inaccuracies. ### [c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2.3) I also owe a debt of gratitude to my friend Shaikh 'Abd-u'r-Rashīd, lecturer in History in the Muslim University, Aligarh, who brought to my notice Dastūr-u'l-albāb fī 'ilm-i'l-ḥisāb, a manuscript in the Rampur State Library. This work is of invaluable importance for the students of the agrarian and revenue administration of Fīrūz Shāh's reign. The author is Ḥājī 'Abd-u'l-Ḥamīd Muḥarrir Ghaznawī who finished the book in 760 A.H. He had planned the work in 734 A.H., hence there can be little doubt that he was familiar with the administration of the previous reign as well. His descriptions of the various institutions and their working as well as his glossary of technical terms are most illuminating. Shaikh 'Abd-u'r-Rashīd, not only drew my attention to this important work, he also lent me the transcriptions made for him in instalments as he received them and the references in this treatise are to his copy. It was very fortunate indeed that I came to know of this manuscript at a stage when I could use it in this edition. ### [c2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2.4) University of Delhi: The 8th July, 1944. ### [c2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2.5) I. H. QURESHI. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.qureshi-1942.c2) · Pramāṇa