metal is uninjured by
rust, and the inscription is perfect. An exact facsimile is set up in
the Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum at South
Kensington, The pillar is shown, with the smaller arches of the
mosque, in _H.F.A._ fig. 232. See also Fanshawe, pp. 260, 264, and
plates. The inscription was edited by Fleet (_Gupta Inscriptions_,
1888, No. 32). The dimensions of the pillar are as follows: Height
above ground (total), 22 ft,; height below ground, 1 ft. 8 in.;
diameter at base, 16.4 in.; diameter at the capital, 12.05 in.;
height of capital, 3 1/2 ft. At a distance of a few inches below the
surface it expands in a bulbous form to a diameter of 2 ft. 4 in.,
and rests on a gridiron of iron bars, which are fastened with lead
into the stone pavement. (_A.S.R._, vol. iv, p. 28, pl. v.)

This last prosaic fact, established by actual excavation, destroys
the basis of all the current local legends and spurious traditions.

29. This name is printed Ouse in the author's text. The saint
referred to is the celebrated Kutb-ud-din Bakhtyar Kaki, commonly
called Kutb Shah, who died on the 27th of November, A.D. 1235.
Iltutmish died in April, A.D. 1236 (Beale).

30. The royal tombs are in the village of Mihrauli, close to the
Kutb. See Carr Stephen, op. cit., pp. 180-4, and Fanshawe, pp. 280-4.

31. That is to say, the revenue administration of Bengal, Bihar, and
Orissa in 1765.

32. He is now Emperor, having succeeded his father, Akbar Shah, in
1837. [W. H. S.] He is known as Bahadur Shah II. In consequence of
his having joined the rebels in 1857, he was deposed and banished. He
died at Rangoon in 1862, and with him ended the line of Emperors of
Delhi. He was born on the 24th of October, 1775, and so was in his
sixty-first year when the author met him. His father was about
seventy-eight (eighty lunar) years of age at his death.

33. 'Basant' means the spring. The full name of this festival of the
spring time is the Basant Panchami.

34. According to Harcourt (_The New Guide to Delhi_, 1866), the tomb
of Iltutmish was erected by his children, the Sultanas Rukn-ud-din
and Razia, who reigned in succession after him for short periods,
that is to say, Rukn-ud-din Firoz Shah for six months and twenty-
eight days, and the Empress Razia for about three years, from A.D.
1236 to 1239. (See Carr Stephen, p. 73.) Iltutmish died in April,
A.D. 1236, not in 1235. Fergusson observes that this tomb is of
special interest a