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Tabaqat Akbari, the author of which did not die till 1003 a.h., 

 1595, though he may have been writing his history for many 

 years previously. Ahmad Yadgar's references to and his copy- 

 ing from Nizam- ud-dnVs history relate, I think, to the history 

 of Humayun, and I would suggest that this history, which 

 was no part of Daud Shah's suggestion, may have been added 

 afterwards. However, whatever be the date of Ahmad Yad- 

 gar's history, he must, as his father's son, have had access 

 to good sources of information. Perhaps, the most valuable 

 part of his book is his account of the last two years of Babur 's 

 reign. It supplements the Memoirs of Babur, and also 

 Fenshta and Abul-Fazl, for, as Professor Dowson remarks in a 

 note to p. 42, there is no mention elsewhere of the expedition 

 against the Mundahirs. If we had not Ahmad Yadgar's work, 

 we should not know that Babur marched to Lahore iti the 

 third year after_ his accession, i.e. in 935, or that he met the 

 Rajah of Kahlur at Sirhind, and sent a punitive expedition 

 against the Mundahars of Kaithal (in the Karnal district). 



