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p. 192.) The fort is described by Cunningham in _A.S.R._, vol. i, p. 212, whose description is copied in the guide-books. See also Fanshawe, _Delhi Past and Present_ (John Murray, 1902), p. 288 and plate. That work is cited as 'Fanshawe'. 3. Also called Adilabad. It is described in _A.S.R._, vol. i, p. 21; Carr Stephen, _The Archaeology and Monumental Remains of Delhi_, Ludhiana, 1876, p. 98; and Fanshawe, p. 291. 4. '_The Barber's House_. This lies to the right of the road from Tughlakabad to Badarpur, and is close to the ruined city. It is said to have been built for Tughlak Shah's barber about A.D. 1323. It is now a mere ruin.' (Harcourt, _The New Guide to Delhi_, Allahabad, 1866, p. 88.) 5. This fine tomb was built by Muhammad bin Tughlak (A.D. 1325-51). It is described by Cunningham in _A.S.R._, vol. i, p. 213. See also _Ann. Rep. A. S., India_, 1904-5, p. 19, fig. 11; _H.F.A._, p. 397, fig. 234; and Fanshawe, p. 290, with plate. Thomas (_Chronicles_, p. 192) and Cunningham both say that the causeway, or viaduct, has twenty-seven, not only twenty-five, arches, as stated in the text. The causeway is 600 feet in length. The sloping walls are characteristic of the period. 6. The blunder of calling the Sultans of Delhi by the name Pathan, due to the translators of Firishta's History, has been perpetuated by Thomas's well-known work, _The Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi_, and in countless other books. The name is quite wrong. The only Pathan Sultans were those of the Lodi dynasty, which immediately preceded Babur, and those of the Sur dynasty, the rivals of Babur's son. 'He (_scil._ Ghiyas-ud-din Balban) was a _Turk_ of the Ilbari tribe, but compilers of Indian Histories and Gazetteers, and archaeological experts, turn him, like many Turks, Tajziks, Jats, and Sayyids, into _Pathans_, which is synonymous with Afghan, it being the vitiated Hindi equivalent of Pushtun, the name by which the people generally known as Afghans call themselves, in their own language. . . . It is quite time to give up Dow and Briggs' Ferishta.' (Raverty, in _J.A.S.B._, vol. lxi (1892), Part I, p. 164, note.) 7. The murder of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlak by his son Fakhr-ud-din Juna, also called Ulugh Khan, occurred in the year A.H. 725, which began on 18th December, 1324 (o.s.). The testimony of the contemporary traveller Ibn Batuta establishes the fact that the fall of the pavilion was premeditated. (Thomas, _Chronicles_, pp. 18
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