February, 1912.] Annual Report. xxi 
In the Journal for May 1911, Mr. H. A. Rose, C.S., edited 
the Dictionary of the Pahari Dialect as spoken in the Punjab 
Himalayas, by Pandit Tika Ram Yosi, author of a grammar 
and dictionary of Kanawari. 
e same writer communicated to the Journal for July 
1911 a very interesting article styled * Persian Letters from 
Jahan Ara, daughter of Shahjahan, King of Delhi, to Raja 
Budh Parkas of Sirmir’’:; these six Persian letters bear 
impressions of the seal of Jahan Ara Begum. 
In the Journal for June 1911, Mr. Kirkpatrick’s very 
useful contribution entitled ‘‘ A Vocabulary of the Pasi Boli or 
Argot of the Kuncbandiya Kanjars’’ was published. He 
gives a brief account of the tribe saying, “ The Kuncbandiya 
Kanjars are, at the present day, a non-criminal section of the 
vagrant tribes of a Gipsy character known all over India by 
Hon’ble Dr. A. al-Mamun Suhrawardi, Bar.-at-Law, 
published in June 1911, has attempted to deal with the 
validity of the Wagf of moveables. 
n his ‘ Notes on the History of the District of Hughli, or 
the ancient Rada,’’ published in the Journal for December 
Portuguese Settlement there, up to A.D. 1640, when the English 
built a factory at the place. 
In the extra number of the Journa’ for December 1910, 
Mr. E. Joseph, I.C.S., made a valuable contribution to the 
Jatii language spoken by the Rohtak Jats. ‘‘It is in reality,” 
the writer adds, ‘‘ a dialect of Western Hindi modified on the 
deals with the grammar of the language, then he gives a very 
useful Jatu-English glossary, and subsequently the English- 
Jatu. The paper will be of much use to the students of the 
Jatu language. 
Messrs. R. W. Whitehead and George P. Taylor have very 
useful and valuable contributions to the Numismatic Supple- 
ment, No. XV, in the Journal for December 1910. The former 
has notes on some Mughal coins, on Dams of Akbar struck at 
Jaunpur and Ajmir mints, and on some rare Pathan coins : 
while the latter, on some copper coins of the ‘Adil Shah’s 
Dynasty of Bijapir, on the Bijapur Lari or Larin, on the 
Bijapir Mughal Rupee of a.H. 1091, and on the half-Muhar No. 
172 of the British Museum Catalogue. . 
The article on Mundari phonology by Professor Sten 
