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hand, it appears from I.M.C., Nos. 514-6 that the Akbari alias 
of the town was Shahgarh and not Shergarh in 968, 969 A.H 
But to this it may be replied that the transition from Shergarh 
to Shahgarh may have taken place after 966 A.H., and that 
Nizam-ud-din Ahmad and Badaoni may have been ignorant of 
it or may have taken no cognizance of it on account of the 
older name being still in greater vogue. Besides, there are 
bable that the change to Shahgarh occurred in 957, but that 
after the defeat of Muhammad ‘Adil the old name was resumed, 
I ought perhaps to add that there are several other places 
called Shergarh in India. Abul Fazl mentions four mahals of 
that name in the 4am. Two of them were in the Suba of 
Bengal (Jarrett, Trans., IT, 141, 144) and may, for the reason 
mentioned, be rejected at once. The th i 
north of Mailsi, founded in the time of the Emperor Sher Shah, 
and still showing ruins of its former prosperity ” (E. D. Maclagan, 
Abul Fazl’s Account of the Multan Sarkar, in J.A.S B., 1901, 
Pt. I, p. 3.) This appears to have been a place of much greater 
consequence, as its revenue was 5,741,200 Dams (1,438,530 Rs.), 
but it can hardly stand comparison with Qanauj in any res- 
Shergadha, “‘ a dependency of Jahni,’”’ in the Panjab is 
thrice alluded to by Badaoni as the residence of “ Shaikh Daad 
Qadiri Jahniwal, the greatest Pole Star, the master and asylum 
of Sainthood.” (Lowe, II, 159, 160.) But it does not other- 
wise appear to have been a place of any note. pope oe 
hornton mentions a ‘ Sheregurh ’ in the “ British district 
of Bareilly, on the route from Pareilly to Almora, 20 miler 
north of the former. Lat. 28° 40’ N.. Long. 79° 27' BK.” Anothes 
place of the same name is said to be * in the Rajpoot State of 
Jeypoor, 74 miles S.E. by S. from Jeypoor and 121 miles E. by 
S. from Ajmeer, Lat. 96° 2’ N., Long. 76° 35° E.” (Gazetteer, 
New Edition, 885.) : 
par which is marked in 
There is Sh : ; 
Constable’s Hand Atlas (Pl. 27 A, 6) a8 well as in Keith John- 
stone’s Atlas of India (Pl. 5 Z, f). See also 
ed. 1908, XIV, 188, 191). Another homonymo 
“ the Chhata tahsil of Mathura district, N.W-P., Lat. 2 
Long. 77° 39’ E., on the right bank of the Jamna, 8 miles north- 
east of Chhata town. The town derives its name from a large 
