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  1. 01. ↑Alam, Muzaffar (1998). "The pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics". _Modern Asian Studies_. **32** (2). Cambridge University Press: 317–349\. doi: 10.1017/s0026749x98002947. S2CID 146630389. Hindavi was recognized as a semi-official language by the Sor Sultans (1540–55) and their chancellery rescripts bore transcriptions in the Devanagari script of the Persian contents. The practice is said to have been introduced by the Lodis (1451–1526).

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  2. 02. 1 2Hartel 1997, p.262.

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  3. 03. ↑Berndl, Klaus (2005). _National Geographic Visual History of the World_. National Geographic Society. pp.318–320\. ISBN 978-0-7922-3695-5.

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  4. 04. ↑Asher 1977.

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  5. 05. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.41.

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  6. 06. 1 2 3"Rule of Afghans". _Banglapedia_. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023.

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  7. 07. ↑Puri & Das 2003, p.113.

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  8. 08. ↑Jenkins 2015, p.64.

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  9. 09. ↑Bhattacherje 2009, p.52.

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  10. 10. ↑Chandra 2007, p.215-216.

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  11. 11. 1 2 3, p.168.

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  12. 12. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.34-36.

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  13. 13. ↑Chandra 2007, p.216-217.

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  14. 14. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.42.

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  15. 15. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.38-41.

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  16. 16. ↑Chandra 2007, p.217.

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  17. 17. 1 2 3, p.169.

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  18. 18. 1 2Mikaberidze 2011, p.830.

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  19. 19. 1 2Chandra 2005, p.77.

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  20. 20. 1 2 3, p.170.

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  21. 21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Nijjar, Bakhshish Singh (1968). "Panjab under Humayun and the Surs". _Panjāb under the Great Mughals: 1526–1707_. Thacker. ISBN 978-0-8426-0127-6.

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  22. 22. ↑Nijjar 1968, p.23-24.

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  23. 23. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.41-45.

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  24. 24. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.63-64.

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  25. 25. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.65-66.

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  26. 26. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.47.

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  27. 27. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.47-52.

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  28. 28. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.53.

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  29. 29. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.53-56.

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  30. 30. ↑Kennedy 1905, p.212.

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  31. 31. ↑Matta 2005, p.171.

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  32. 32. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.67-68.

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  33. 33. ↑Chandra 2005, p. 77-79.

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  34. 34. ↑Chandra 2005, p.80.

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  35. 35. ↑Hooja 2006, p.526-529.

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  36. 36. 1 2Chaudhuri 2006, p.81-82.

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  37. 37. ↑Hooja 2006, p.531 "Maldeo had been forced to retreat to the fortress of Siwana because of the consequences of the battle of Sammel in 1544, he soon retrieved his position after Sher Shah's death. By July 1545 Maldeo had recovered his ancestral capital of Jodhpur, and uprooted many of Sher Shah's chain of garrisons and outposts from Marwar. Within the next eighteen months (i.e. by the end of 1546) the Rathore king managed to take back practically all that he had lost to Sher Shah."

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  38. 38. ↑Bhattacherje 2009, p.54.

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  39. 39. ↑Ali Khan 1925, p.99-100.

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  40. 40. ↑Asher 1977, p.273-298.

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  41. 41. ↑Nath, Pratyay (24 May 2019). "Narratives of Akbar's Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty". _The World of the Siege (Narratives of Akbar's Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty)_. Brill. p.176-. doi: 10.1163/9789004395695\_008. ISBN 978-90-04-39569-5. Mankot (1557) was the first siege of Akbar's career and was undertaken at a stage when he was still under the regency of Bairam Khan. Chased by Mughal troops, the Afghan chieftain Sikandar Sur had taken refuge in this fort in the Himalayan foothills near the Punjab Plains of North India. Sikandar was a member of the aristocracy of the Afghan sultanate that Mughal armies had defeated on the plains of Panipat the year before. This siege represented an important phase in the struggle of the emergent Mughal Empire against the increasingly-cornered Afghan aristocracy – one that would continue for

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  42. 42. ↑Abu'l Fazl, Akbarnama, tr. H. Beveridge, reprint, Delhi, 2002, vol.2, p.90-91

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  43. 43. ↑"Bairam Khan Petitions The Young Akbar Following The Siege of Mankot in 1557. First Akbarnama, Victoria and Albert Museum, circa 1590-95. Arts of the Islamic World 2019". _Sotheby's_.

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  44. 44. ↑Chaurasia, Radhey Shyam (2002). _History of Medieval India: From 1000 A.D. to 1707 A.D._ Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p.190\. ISBN 978-81-269-0123-4. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2023.

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  45. 45. ↑Abbas Khan Sarwani (1580). "Táríkh-i Sher Sháhí; or, Tuhfat-i Akbar Sháhí, of 'Abbás Khán Sarwání. CHAPTER I. Account of the reign of Sher Sháh Súr". Packard Humanities Institute. Archived from the original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2010.

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  46. 46. ↑Thomas 1967, p.403.

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  47. 47. 1 2"Mughal Coinage". _RBI Monetary Museum_. Reserve Bank of India. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2010.

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  48. 48. ↑Goron & Goenka 2001, p.98.

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  49. 49. ↑Dias 1996, p.216.

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  50. 50. ↑Sud 2016, p.74.

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  51. 51. ↑, p.176.

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  52. 52. ↑, p.176-177.

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  53. 53. ↑, p.177.

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  54. 54. ↑, p.177-178.

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  55. 55. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.53.

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  56. 56. ↑"Shēr Shah of Sūr". _Encyclopædia Britannica_. Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

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  57. 57. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.53-54.

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  58. 58. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.49.

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  59. 59. ↑Abbas Khan Sarwani (1580). "Táríkh-i Sher Sháhí; or, Tuhfat-i Akbar Sháhí, of 'Abbás Khán Sarwání. CHAPTER I. Account of the reign of Sher Sháh Súr". _Sir H. M. Elliot_. London: Packard Humanities Institute. p.78\. Archived from the original on 16 October 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2010.

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  60. 60. ↑Roy 2015, p.54.

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  61. 61. ↑Mahajan 1968, p.51.

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  62. 62. 1 2, p.180-182.

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  63. 63. 1 2Mahajan 1968, p.52.

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  64. 64. ↑Matta 2005, p.214.

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  65. 65. 1 2Mahajan 1968, p.54.

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  66. 66. ↑Brown 1939, p.636-646.

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  67. 67. ↑, p.182.

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  68. 68. ↑Ahmed, ABM Shamsuddin (2012). "Ghiyasuddin Mahmud Shah". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). _Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh_ (Onlineed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 12 September 2026.

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  69. 69. 1 2Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). _The Mughul Empire_, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1`{{isbn}}`: ignored ISBN errors ( link), p.83

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  70. 70. ↑Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). _The Mughul Empire_, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1`{{isbn}}`: ignored ISBN errors ( link), pp.90–93

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  71. 71. 1 2Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). _The Mughul Empire_, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1`{{isbn}}`: ignored ISBN errors ( link), p.94

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  72. 72. 1 2 3 4Majumdar, R.C. (ed.) (2007). _The Mughul Empire_, Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, ISBN 81-7276-407-1`{{isbn}}`: ignored ISBN errors ( link), pp.94–96

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  73. - Ali Khan, Zulfiqar (1925). _Sher Shah Suri, Emperor of India_. Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette Press.

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  74. - Asher, Catherine B. (1977). "The Mausoleum of Sher Shāh Sūrī". _Artibus Asiae_. **39** (3/4): 273–298\. doi: 10.2307/3250169. JSTOR 3250169.

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  76. - Brown, Percy (1939). "The Influence of Sher Shah Sur on the Islamic Architecture of India". _Proceedings of the Indian History Congress_. **3**: 636–646\. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44252417. Archived from the original on 6 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

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  77. - Chandra, Satish (2005) \First published 1999\. _Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals - Part Two: Mughal Empire (1526–1748)_ (3rded.). Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 978-81-241-1066-9. Archived from the original on 21 January 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

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  82. - Hartel, Herbert (1997). "India under the Moghol Empire". In Kissling, H. J.; Barbour, N.; Spuler, Bertold; Trimingham, J. S.; Bagley, F. R. C. (eds.). _The Last Great Muslim Empires_. BRILL. pp.262–263\. ISBN 90-04-02104-3. Archived from the original on 10 March 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

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