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several Mughal Emperors of India or by tlie Claimants to the 

 Imperial throne. The lists hitherto published are not only 

 extremely meagre but inconsistent in at least some of their 

 details, and lience one feels a natural hesitation in accepting any 

 of the figures they contain. In preparing the List A now sub- 

 mitted, I have consulted various authorities, which, in order to 

 facilitate verification, have, in every cj»se, been duly recorded. The 

 dates entered are given first according to Hijri reckoning, but, 

 with the aid of Sir A- Cunningham's well-known " Tables," they 

 have all been converted into the corresponding dates of the 



Christian era. 



will 



name of each Mu gh al 



Emperor or Claimant, the period during which he may be held to 

 have caused coins to be struck, and next, on separate lines, are 

 given the dates of the earliest, and of the latest, known specimens 

 in gold or silver or copper, of each reign. In order to discover in 

 every case which were the earliest and which the latest coins 

 known, I laid under contribution the published catalogues of the 

 British, the Indian (Calcutta), and the Labor Museums, but for 

 the puT^oses of my search quite the most valuable material consisted 

 of certain MS- ''returns " kindly supplied me by the following 

 gentlemen, to all of whom I desire to tender hearty thanks : 

 Messrs. G. B. Bleazby, R. Burn, Framji J. Thanawala, L. White 



\ Wright. 



[^Abbreviation : — 



E.D. — Elliot's " History of India as told by its own Histo-^ 



rians,'' edited by Dowson, 8 vols. 

 Ersk, = Erskine's " History of India under Baber and Huma- 



yun," 2 vols. 



Beale = Beale's "Oriental Biographical Dictionary," revised 



by Keene, 



-A-A. = *' Ain-i-Akbari, " translated byBlochmann and Jarrett, 



3 vols. 



A/Vhen three separate figures are employed to express a date^. 



the first represents the day, the second the month, and 



the third the year ; thus : 



29 : X: 1627 A.D. = 29th of October, 1627 A.D. ; 

 26: VIII: 1076 A.H. = -26th of Raiab. 1076 A.FI 



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List A. 

 1. Babar: 



Accession, 15 : VIII : 932 A.H., Fri., 27 : IV : 1526 A.D. ; 



Death, 5 : V : 937 A.H., Sun., 25 : XII : 1530 A.D. 

 See Ersk. I -. 437, 5L7 ; E. U. IV. 257 ; V. 1 18. 



ism 



Accession, 9 : V : 937 A.H., Thur., 29 : XII : 1530 

 Defeat, 10 : 1 : 947 A.H , Mon., 17 : V : 1540 A D 

 See B. D. Y : 118 ; Ersk. II : 187. 



(h) Second Keiern : 



