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52, (vol<-H.) during Feroze Tliird's reign, Zemindars of Gorukpore and Kut- 

 ter are mentioned by Dow, where Ferishtdi distinctly calls them Mokaddams. 

 Zemindars as well as Mokaddams of Atava, are, it is true, in one part spo- 

 ken of by the Persian historian, but he elsewhere also alludes to Rais and 

 Rajas of the same district. On the deposition of Abu Bekker, the translator 

 observes, that the Zemindars, in various, parts of the empire, fell upon his 

 followers and massacred them. The original says, " the ryots and others 

 murdered them." Whilst the designation so often repeated, has been thus 

 constantly introduced intoDow's translation, in a manner quite unwarranted 

 either by the sense or language of the text, it is strangely omitted, sometimes, 

 in parts where it does occur in the original. Thus, Ferishteh, speaking of the 

 warlike operations of the Emperor Mohammed Third, and the vigour of his 

 government during the early part of his reign, says, " He conquered the en- 

 tire Carnatic, from sea to sea, taking possession of part of the country and 

 obliging the Rajas of the other portion to pay tribute, and, from dread of 

 his prowess, the Rais and Zemindars throughout the empire became submis- 

 sive and obedient, and waited on the court to discharge their several duties 

 and offices." Dow renders the passage simply as follows, "■■ He soon after 

 reduced the Carnatic, to the extremities of the Deccan, and from sea to 

 sea, obliging all the Rajas to pay him tribute, by which means he again fill- 

 ed the treasury with money." Thelast of Col. Dow's mistakes, which I shall 

 notice, is one that has led the ingenious author of the essay on Asiatic Mo- 

 narchies, to imagine a support to one (though not a material) part of his 

 argument, which does not in reality exist. The translator says of the fa- 

 mous Ferid, alias Sher Shah, "When he arrived at his Jagir (in the S6beh of 

 Jonpur,) he actually put his resolution in practice, by rendering justice to 

 the poor, and reducing to order such of the Zemindars as opposed his au- 

 thority ;" now the original states simply, M The Mokaddams of several vil- 

 lages being turbulent and refractory, he undertook to reduce them to order." 

 The word Zemindar never once occurs any where in or near the passage. 



The only inference which I would draw from the above, is, that, in those 



