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[edit] Zabul?

Is Zabul supposed to be Zabulistan? --Dangerous-Boy 09:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Almost the same area, but defintely a contnuum of the same name. --Tigeroo 03:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Janjuashahi =

This name is a 20th centruy construct and is not backed by any historian of the time or recent archelogical finds, there is no consensus among indepedent historians as to which tribe Jayapala belonged though its well known that they were rajputs and had marital alliances with other rajput kingdoms being part of the rajput confedracy, but they were certainly not known as Janjuashahis.

OK will change to reflect that unless someone can cite them being Janjua.--Tigeroo 03:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, you are right, the term Janjua Shahi is a recent reference (since the early 70's infact), but a more correct term for this dynasty, coined by Dr Hussain Khan Ph.D, Professor of History, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, no less. Sir Alexander Cunningham (Coins of Medieval India Reprint. Varanasi:1967 p.56,62), Elliot and Dowson (The History of India Indian repr.1962.vol.i, p.22,425-26) and Sachau (Alberuni's India London 1914, vol.ii, p393-94) led research into the origins of the 'Pala' Hindu Shahiya (at that time Pala Shahi Dynasty was also a new coined reference too, denoting a different dynasty), the second dynasty that succeeded the initial Brahmin 'Dev' Shahiyas. Through independent research they concluded that the origins of Emperor Jayapala Shah was in fact in the Janjua Rajput. In 1973's Al-Biruni International Congress in Pakistan, Dr Hussain Khan presented a paper in called "An Interpretation of Al-Biruni's Account of the Hindu Shahiyas of Kabul" which also confirmed the same findings. Finally, the Janjuas own genealogy records the names of Jayapala as well as the continued descendants of his House. Alberuni stated that all the sovereigns of the country of the Shahi were known by that ancestral name, so other Rajput kingdoms themselves wouldn't have called them Hindu Shahis at all. It was a term coined and used by Alberuni to refer to the Shahs of Kabul etc.

Hope this clarifies the above point.--Raja 15:20, 30 July 2006 (UTC)