Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ஜியாவுதீன் பரணி" in Tamil language version.
Barani never called himself Turk for one intention that he wanted to be an Indian than anything else
His ignorance of the geography of Central Asia and Persia is surprising...in his modes of thought and feeling he is hundred per cent Indian
Żiyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī (ca. 1285–1357) ... was a native of Baran, a town just east of Delhi, known today as Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, India.