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that he had overrun and settled Bihar. His own silence about 
Sindh is also most significant. The absence of any allusion in 
the histories of the Mughal dynasty to Babur’s conquest of or 
suzerainty over Lower Si ndh also militates with some force 
against the Tatta reading. 
It is therefore all the more necessary to quote a statement 
to the contrary which occurs in the Tarikh-i-M ‘asumi, a 
History of the Province written by Mir Pas M‘asim 
in 1009 A.H. This author asserts that “ when Shah Hoosain 
[Arghin] ascended the throne of his father at Nusurpoor, the 
Svuds, Kazees and the chiefs represented to him that it was 
right to have his nameread inthe sermon. Shah Hoosain said 
it was not proper for him to do so as long as any of the descen- 
dants of Sahib Kiran were remaining, and the name of Babur 
Badshah was read.”’! (A History of Sind, Trans. G. G. Malet, 
Bombay, 1855, p. 95). 
t should be observed that Mir M‘asiim speaks of Shah 
Husain having ordered the Khutba to ‘be read in Babur’s 
name contrary to the wishes of his chiefs and Amirs.» He does 
not make any explicit statement in regard to coins, and we are 
left draw our own eee on that head. But the. Khutba 
Husain resigned that Noe privilege also and raitied 
Babur’s titles and not his own to be displayed on the loca! 
money. The bearing of this inference on the matter in issue 
is obvious. The a dle we have to decide is, ‘ Is the state- 
ment itself true 
Unfo seat this hearsay report of some local or deasike 
tradition receives no corroboration from any other source, and 
is opposed to some well-known facts and authorities. It is flag- 
rantly contradicted and belied by Shah Husain’s (or Hasan’s) 
subsequent conduct towards Babur’s son and successor. 
A similar ent occurs also in the Tarkhan-Nama (Elliot and 
pele I, S12), arg “iti is really taken = second-hand from the History of 
a asim (see the remarks in E.D. I., 301), and has consequently no in- 
= cede tno 
2 This ome to clearly imply that Husain’s father, Shah Be 
Arghin, had h at hat Khutba mek? ne own name and not Babur’s. The 
e oved. and Amirs”’ were orineibins in favour of the practice being con- 
’ Thus we are told that more had the Khutba read in his own 
name during Humf@yiin’s absence in Be 
ngal, but he is not said to mee 
gout Boy the length of striking ‘cian (Beveridge, Akbarnima, Tran 
poe ati Ranking, Badaoni, Trans. I, 459, Tabaqat-i- Akbaré » antic 
mn, V, 202.) again, Mun‘im Khan was once obliged by Mirz& 
WSO! 
Sulaiman’s sudden i invasion of Kabul to consen nt to the meena he the 
Reverie Akbarnama, Trans. II 
Tab. Akb.in B.D.,V,249) , Badfoni, Trans. II, 5; 
