Machine summary:
When Abul Fazl, the court chronicler of Akbar, represented Sher Shah as a thief and a robber, how could a lesser man like Abbas Khan give him the pride of place which he deserved ?
The author based his history on the first-hand information he· gathered from reli• able sources and therefore his book served as a valuable source for the chronicles compiled later like Makhzan-i-Ajghani by Nimatullah Harvi, Waqiat-i-M ushtaqi by Rizqullah Mush• taqi and Tarikh-i-Dawoodi.
The book under review is an Urdu trans• lation of Tarikh-i-Sher Shahi rendered by Mazhar Ali Vila in 1905.
" Though it is true that eminent Mystics display signs of action and work in their lives and were not merely • subjectivist, ' yet this element of dynamic activity is the result of their religious train• ing and the dictates of practical life.
But there is again a lacuna : while the learned author has given a critical analysis of the whole of the Tarihh-i-Khan-i- Jahi'ini wa Makhzani-i• Afghani, he has published the collated text of only four out of seven chapters and a Khatimah of the original, thus increasing the thirst of a research worker on Indian history for more.
The summary which has been provided tells us that Chapter V deals with the life of the author's patron, Khan-i-jahan Lodi, right up to what one gathers was the height of his power.