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additional ‘‘ upright stroke’’ does seem to be there, and the 
least that can be said is that if the odds are not decisively in 
favour of Patna, they are also not against it. 
However that may be, there is another aspect of the 
matter which should not, in such doubtful cases, be overlooked ; 
I mean, the historical. The fact is that there is not to be 
found in any of the original histories of the Mughal Emperors 
anything to show that Tatta or Lower Sindh was, at any time, 
an integral part of Babur’s dominions. Neither Badaoni nor 
Nizamuddin Ahmad nor the habitually panegyrical Abul Faz 
nor any other historian of the dynasty says that Babur ever 
invaded that part of the country, or possessed any authority 
there. The truth is that like Gujarat, Malwa, Jaunpur, etc., 
Sindh became altogether independent of the Dehli Sultans on 
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the fall of the Tughlaqs. ‘‘ The Samma Kings,” says 
and rebuilt the fortifications with bricks taken from the 
ancient stronghold of Aror.” Shah Beg died in 1522. “ His 
- gon and successor, Mirza Shah Hasan, finally drove Jam Firoz 
from Tatta to Cutch and at length to Gujarat where he died... 
Shah Hasan died childless in 1554 after a reign of twenty-two 
(sic) years, and with him ended the Arghun dynasty.” (XXII 
396-7.) The Arghiins were succeeded by the Tarkhans and it 
was only after Mirza Jani Beg Tarkban surrendered Tatta to 
the Khan-i-Khanan ‘Abdur Rahim in 1592 A.C. that Lower 
Sindh was reunited to the Empire of Dehli after an interval of 
Prince [Humayin] having taken the country of Harand [a mis- 
reading of Kharid] and Bihar from Nasir Khan Luhani, and 
1 Tatta is written .. with or without all the dots, on I.M.C., 256, 
$08, and B.M.C., 643, 701, or ~~ on B.M.C., 199 and 468, and I.M.C., 
799. a 
Patna is written ,» on B.M.C., 209,525 and 728, or, on 
B.M.C., 131, 467, 608 and J.M.C., 99, 248 and 764. 
The name on the Shahrukhi is thus written | o~ - 
