New Books In Review Introduction and review

Persian· and Arabic inscriptions, which abound in almost all parts of India, were published by the Archaeological Survey of India in the series, Epigraphia Ludo-Moslemica till 1939-40, and again from 1949 to 1952, after which the publication began to be called Epigraphia Indic«, Arabic and Persian Supple• ment. Kadiri for having ~iven a number of references in_ his article on the Inscriptions of the Hahmanis of the Deccan from his book of the :;amc name. Besides containing a critical study of all the available Persian and Arabic sources, including the rare piece of Muhammad bin Tughluq's Fragmentary Memoirs, which the author has tried to prove genuine, this book draws upon the Sanskrit and Prakrit sources. The last appendix Q deals with Delhi and Daulatabad tankas, A silver tanka had eight hashtgnni dirhans, according to Shaik Mubarak, and as such Edward Thomas worked out the interchangeable rates of a tanku of Muhammad bin Tughluq and con• eluded that a tanka of 175 grams of pure silver was divisible into 64 gannis or jitals.