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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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8.
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12.
GidwanBhagwan S., Pan Indian writer has collected these ‘songs of history’ from many lands, near and far. Ibid
13.
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14.
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15.
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17.
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ChandTara, note 8
19.
Gorekar, note 3, p. 3
20.
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21.
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23.
SmithVincent A., note 21, p. 215
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26.
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27.
Sykes, n. 20, p. 434
28.
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30.
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31.
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32.
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35.
Ibid, p. 6
36.
Hekmat, note, 14, p. 58
37.
Ramanda proclaimed Bakht fath and Kabir, the famous Muslim Sufi was influenced by his teachings
38.
Hekmat, note 14, pp. 50, 53 and 80
39.
Ibid, pp. 78, 80 and 83
40.
Ibid, pp. 65–72
41.
Ibid. pp. 166–67
42.
Ibid, pp. 167
43.
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44.
Ibid, p. 210
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47.
Riazul Islam, note 42, p. 168
48.
Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (Aligarh, 1864), pp. 76, 150, 162, 192, 193, etc
49.
Riazul Islam note 42, p. 169
50.
Hekmat, note 14, no. 39, p. 83
51.
Riazul Islam, Note 42, p. 170
52.
53.
Ibid, pp. 61–65
54.
Ibid, p. 132
55.
56.
DuttRomesh Chandra, The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age (London, 1903), p. 518
57.
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Hali, Diwan. first published, n.d., reprint (Delhi, 1945), pp. 10–11
59.
Rangila literally means ‘colourful’ but it connotes a merry-making person
60.
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