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- ↑ Lal, Ruby (2005). Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 113. ISBN 9780521850223.
- ↑ Calcutta Review, Volumes 104-105. University of Calcutta. 1897. p. 5.