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- ↑ Stokes, Eric (1980). The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press. p. 17, 293. ISBN 978-0-52129-770-7.
- ↑ Raychaudhuri, Tapan; Habib, Irfan; Kumar, Dharma, eds. (1983). The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2 (Reprinted ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 37, 70. ISBN 978-0-52122-802-2.
- ↑ MAJOR H.G. RAVERTY (1881). Tabakat I Nasiri : A General History Of The Muhammadan Dynasties Of Asia Including Hindustan Volume 1. London.
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