378 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (October, 1909. 
_ Taylor says that Salim’s holding Gujarat in fief would not have 
entitled him to issue coins in his own name. But the point is 
not what he was entitled to do, but what he had facilities for 
mated the extent of Jahangir’s rebellion. He twice over speaks 
of it as short-lived and as confined, apparently, to Allahabad. 
vants went off to Gujarat, as the M‘Asiru-l-Umara tells us they 
did, they fomented the agitation there. Manucci is too late and 
too much of a gossip to be an authority on the subject. If Dr. 
Taylor would read the M‘asir Jahangiri of Kamgar Husaini, he 
would see to what lengths Jahangir went on the path of rebellion. 
of Jahangir’s misconduct, and of course, Jahangir himself 
is not much more outspoken, though he does confess to having 
murdered Abi’l Fazl. It is begging the question too to say that 
there is no evidence that the rebellion reached Ahmadabad. Is 
not the Salimi coinage potent evidence of the fact ? And here 
It seems to me that he or his servants issued them because 
he was a rebel, and because, as he himself and Kamgar Husain 
