The causeway is 600 feet in length. The sloping walls are
characteristic of the period.
6. The blunder of calling the Sultans of Delhi by the name Pathan,
due to the translators of Firishta's History, has been perpetuated by
Thomas's well-known work, _The Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of
Delhi_, and in countless other books. The name is quite wrong. The
only Pathan Sultans were those of the Lodi dynasty, which immediately
preceded Babur, and those of the Sur dynasty, the rivals of Babur's
son. 'He (_scil._ Ghiyas-ud-din Balban) was a _Turk_ of the Ilbari
tribe, but compilers of Indian Histories and Gazetteers, and
archaeological experts, turn him, like many Turks, Tajziks, Jats, and
Sayyids, into _Pathans_, which is synonymous with Afghan, it being
the vitiated Hindi equivalent of Pushtun, the name by which the
people generally known as Afghans call themselves, in their own
language. . . . It is quite time to give up Dow and Briggs'
Ferishta.' (Raverty, in _J.A.S.B._, vol. lxi (1892), Part I, p. 164,
note.)
7. The murder of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlak by his son Fakhr-ud-din Juna,
also called Ulugh Khan, occurred in the year A.
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