1 On Kamal Mahiyar, see Barani, Ta’rikh-i Firuz Shahi, edited by Khan, pp. 36-7, edited by Rashid, pp. 42-3, and more generally for the incident, Khan ed., pp. 36-9, Rashid ed., pp. 43-6.
2 Ibid., ed. Khan, p. 126, ed. Rashid, p. 147.
3 There is a huge literature on this subject and personal favorites would include Y. Subbarayulu, Political Geography of the Chola Country, Madras: State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamilnadu, 1973, and his South India under the Cholas, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012. Closer in time to the Sultanate see the details in Pushpa Prasad, Sanskrit Inscriptions of Delhi Sultanate, 1191-1526, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990
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5 See, for example, in the reign of Sultan Rukn al-Din (1236); Juzjani, ?abaqat-i Na?iri, vol. 1, p. 456.
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6 Hodivala (1939), vol. 1, p. 309. See above and the episode of the Bhattis for a reference to the coup