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He has thus taken advantage of practically all that was available in manuscript and in print and thus produced a book on a subject which is generally overlooked but which forms an interesting prelude to the history of freedom movement, both in the context of the events of 1857-1859 and of the Gandhian epoch.
The book will serve as a textbook for students, giving briefly the substance of larger works such as Sarton's well-known Introduction to Science, in three volumes.
A most excellent feature of the book is the wide selecl ions offered from the classical works on Islamic science, and both the author's judgement in selection and his skill in transla• ting some of the passages must be applauded.
In introducing writers of Urdu to the spirit and method of research, therefore, one cannot but draw upon (a) writings in the English language and · (b) words of Persian and Arabic origins that are somewhat unfamiliar to the present genera• tion of Urdu-speaking people.
Since a bibliography has been provided at the end of the volume, references to that alone would perhaps have been sufficient even in a book outlining research methods.
This volume is, however, open to the following criticism: No attention has been paid to the use of correct English alphabets for the Persian ones.
'Abbas, the Afghan historian, states that the Mughal Emperor at first accepted Sher Khan's counter-proposals but later abrogated the pact, while Gulbadan, Humayun's half-sister, states in Humayun Nama and Jauhar in Tadhkirat-ul-Waqait that Hurnayun was not guilty of any breach of trust.