218 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
He leaves us to infer that Shah Husain did the same when 
“‘ following in the path of his father,’’ he “ reduced those towns 
which had not yet been subdued by his predecessor.” (Briggs, 
Rise of the Mahomedan Power, IV, 435.) Once more, in his 
account of Husain’s successor, Mirza ‘Isa Tarkhan, he writes :— 
wernt Three 9 S¢2 yd cgesve yleleo 6 96)) Gyn sO wuys jf ow 
&Sns 3 ask UPS pide lays wh % Baye) wis» aac » ais 4 wlsd 
* dH ayF AES ols 
“ After the death of Shah Husain Arghiin, Sultan Mahmiad 
in Bhakkar and Mirza ‘Isa Tarkhan in Thattah each proclaimed 
his own supremacy and in his own place and residence, had the 
Khutba recited and coins struck in his own name.” 
riefly. if we are to believe Firishta, not only Shah Beg: 
Arghin, but Sultan Mahmid of Bhakkar and Mirza ‘Isa 
Tarkhan of Tatta had all declared their independence, and in 
token thereof, struck coins in their own names which were 
inserted likewise in the Khutba. 
_ ,_rhis receives partial corroboration from a fact mentioned 
incidentally in another Provincial History of some eredit—the 
Tarikh-i-Tahiri—which was composed in 1030 A.H. by Mir 
Tahir Muhammad. (E.D. J, 255.) In his account of the 
Khan-i-Khanan ‘Abdu-r-Rahim’s invasion of Sindh, he writes : 
went to one tanka.” (Elliot and Dowson. T 287.) These 
gabars, miris and postants were apparently coin-denominations 
° ‘he name of mint-town on the Shahrukhi (or Baburi) 
in the White King collection is written in such a way that 
it does not exactly resemble either of the two forms in which the 
that Babur never invaded Tatta itself or any part of Lower 
Sindh, that he does not include Sindh in the famous Statement 
of the Revenues of the Provinces of Hindustan which was 
(Beveridge, Memoirs, 520, 
or abou -H. 
522 n), that he himself puts forward no claim to be the suzerain 
