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~ AFG-HANI UNDERTOOK to edit Ni'matullah's Tiirikh Khiin-i-]ahanf-wa• Makhzan-i-Afghiini, a very important and complete general (View the image of this page)preserved in the different foreign and inland libraries.
The Tarikh Khan-i-Jahanf-wa-1\tlakhzan-i-Afghani is an important work on the general history of the Afghans in India from the time of Adam to the death of Khwajah 'Uthman (1021 A.
Elliot says, " The Makhzan-i-Afghani and the Tarikh-i-Khan Jahan Lodi are frequently mentioned and referred to as separate works, but they are essentially· · one and the same.
The Tarikh contains in addition, a memoir of Khan Jahan Lodi, from which the book takes its name and it also gives a meagre· history of the life of Jahangir.
"3 Further it is stated that Ni'matullah undertook to compose this book at the command of Khan-i:-Jahan Lodi in 1018 A.
The same statement is found at the end of Daftar II of the Tari/ili • i-Sher Shahi, revised and enlarged by Ibrahim Batni (see Sachau Bodi.
The author fulfils his promise, that he made at the end of chapter V, by writing the history of Khan-i-Jahan Lodi from· 1022 to Jamadiuth-Thani 1024 A.
"4 Morley says, "The materials of Nimatullah's work were collected by Haibat Khan Kakar of Samana, who appears also to have been the joint author of the book.
He goes a step further and says that Haibat Khan was the author of the Makhzan (the Tarikh J(han-i-]ahii.
:- · · (1) that Ni'matullah was the actual author of the Tarikh Khan-i• Jahani-wa-Makhzan-i-Af ghani.