346 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
the founder being Boureau-Deslandes. [Irvine, Op. cit., I, xxx, 
IV, 415.] 8. H. 
Jahandar Shah and Farrukhsiyar which were first a 
in Num. Supp. XIII (p. 239) and II (p. 241) respectivey |: 
Pp. (p. 230) and II (p. 241) Aspe bas 
towns” which are prefixed to that exceedingly useful pubi® 
tion, he informs us that “the full name of Fathabad mint 
Fathabad Dharar (Dharwar). J.A.S.B. 1912, p. 436. 
Mr. Whitehead’s object in adding the alternative form B 
the parenthesis was, perhaps, to make it clear that yy)lts - 
be read Dharir, as well as Dharwar, as the letter 3 phere 
nounced as a vowel or as a’ consonant. The pha 
that one is naturally left in doubt as to their not being 
the same. The matter is further complicated by = 
there are, as a glance at the Index of the Imperial he tet 
Atlas will show, two places of the name of Dhariir in 6 he 
tories of the Nizam of Haidarabad. Fortunately, it 8 ve é 
to resolve all these doubts as to the real situation of Off Te : 
d»'*s with the assistance of the Persian histories. aie | 
in i | 
s frequ Power it 
pee of the Deccan (Briggs, Rise of the ee — 331,302 
427), as well asin the Mughal chronicles. It appear cs 
aay : we 
Khan in 975 a.n. or 1567 a.c. (Briggs, Op. ctl.» IH, i et 
Vi, 20) 
the Nizam Shahis, into whose hands it appears to ba 3)- te 
very soon after its erection (Briggs, Op. ¢"-; mt, name & 
was after its conquest by the Mughals that it got he : . 
tly given ® 
et (City of Victory), and this 4 os was eviden 
