The Persian inscriptions of India, which constitute an
important source, particularly for the local history
of a region, a district, a tehsil, a town and a
village, have received inadequate if not scant
attention from our historians. Worse and far more
regrettable is the neglect of visitors' or
travellers' records on the walls of sarais, tombs or
mosques, and similar buildings which they passed and
where they made a halt, overnight and otherwise.
Against the commemorative stone tablets set in a
monument to perpetuate the name of the builder,
visitors' or travellers' records or graffiti, as
they are also called, were written usually in ink
and hence were of comparatively much less durable
nature. Many of these graffiti have disappeared in
the natural course with the passage of time.