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- ↑ Sarker, Sunil Kumar (1994), Himu, the Hindu "Hero" of medieval India: against the background of Afghan-Mughal conflicts, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, p. 3, ISBN 978-81-7156-483-5 .
- ↑ History of Shahjahan of Dihli, WorldCat, retrieved 2011-01-06.
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- ↑ Avasthy, Rama Shanker (1967) The Mughal Emperor Humāyūn (See page i "Dr Banarsi Prasad Saksena Former Prof. & Head of the Department of History at the University of Allahabad, Allahabad")
- ↑ National Council of Educational Research and Training (1964) Annual Report, India
- ↑ Gale Encyclopedia of Biography (2006) Shah Jahan
- ↑ Williams, Joanna Gottfried (1981), Kalādarśana: American studies in the art of India, Studies in South Asian Culture, vol. ix, Leiden: E.J. Brill, p. 5,
The Standard history in English is B.P. Saksena
. - ↑ Asher, Catherine B (1992) Architecture of Mughal India, Part 1, Volume 4 - (See page 346, "The best secondary source remains Banarsi Prasad Saksena, History of Shahjahan")
- ↑ Hasan, Farhat (1995), "Book review: The New Cambridge History of India, 1.5- The Mughal Empire", Modern Asian Studies, 29 (2): 441–447, doi:10.1017/s0026749x00012816, JSTOR 312822, S2CID 144913997 .
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