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In asking me to contribute a Foreword to the present work, the Honourable Nawab Sir Zulfiqar Ali Khan has paid me a compliment of which I am deeply sensible. It is an honour for any man to associate his name with that of Sher Shah/, in many ways the most capable figure that ever occupied the imperial throne of Delhi. ' I personally have always resented Lane-Poole’s assertion that the bloody and unscrupulous Balban “ perfectly understood the conditions of kingship in Hindustan.”