Promotion of Learning in India during Muhammadan Rule (by Muhammadans) c3.22

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Book II. deals with the Mughal Dynasty. It is too late now to alter the phrase Mughal Dynasty, and after all it is not incorrect, for Bābur was at least half a Mughal by descent. But it would almost have made him turn in his grave to find the dynasty which he founded designated by the word “Mughal,” for he hated the name and the tribes who bore it. Chapter I. contains an interesting account of this great prince. In the passage quoted at p. 122 from Mīrzā Ḥaidar, the phrase “his Holiness” means the great saint of Samarqand called Khwāja Aḥrār, and also Naṣīru-d-dīn ’Ubaidullāh. He is likewise often designated by the phrase Ḥaẓrat Īshān.