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Mr Buyers has been critical of Mr Velde for a slip up or two. Might I point
the following out to Mr Buyers.

Francois R. Velde...

Come now, it seems perfectly unfair to require of a man what he requires
of others. The fact that he occasionally makes up quotations from inexistent
documents does not mean that he is wrong to point out typos in other people's
work. At any rate, it appears that he now quotes liberally from the very web
page whose inaccuracy he spent a whole week questioning. That he is too
considerate to acknowledge me as a source takes nothing away from this act
of scholarly generosity. If he should use my work thus, when it suits his
purpose, it is surely the most sincere form of flattery I can ever expect.

From the Royal Ark - India - Loharu:

"Nawab Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan, grandson of Sir Amir ud-din, was no less
distinguished than his predecessors. Unlike many in his family, he opted for
India in 1947 and served his country throughout his lifetime. After brief
army service during the conquest of Portuguese India, he went on to serve as
a MLA in Rajasthan for several years, and then as a highly popular Governor
of Himachal Pradesh for six years. He donated the famous and valuable
library amassed by his family to the Raza Library in Rampur. He was
succeeded as head of the house by his eldest surviving son, Nawab Ala ud-din
Ahmad Khan in 1938."

Now this is an interesting account of a man who died in 1938 and yet served
in the Indian military in the 1960s and then as a governor of one of the
Indian states from 1977 to 1981 - which by the way is not six years.

The conclusion: One should be careful when harping on other's honest
mistakes when one makes them oneself.

It is, of course, obvious that the final date should be 1983 and that a
simple transposition occurred. Although the disagreement with other sources
as to the term of the gentleman's service as governor does need to be
resolved.

cj.buyers...

Oh dear or dear professor, is that your correct title?

Surely you have forgotten something, the *original* document from which
I claimed to have *seen* then faithfully *transcribed* the above.
Perhaps you could also quote my statement making such a claim?

Still, nice to see you using my website.