Riyaz al-salatin 44: RULE OF QADR KHAN.

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When Sultan Ghiasu-d-din Tughlak Shah returned from Bengal, before he could reach Delhi, on the way, in the month of Rabiu-l-awwal in the year 725 A.H., he perished under the roof of a newly built pavilion. His son, Ulagh Khan, ascended the throne of Delhi and proclaiming himself Muhammad Shah bestowed on all the nobles offices and Jagirs, and bestowing the title of Qadr Khan on Malik Bedar Khilji, who was one of his leading nobles, he assigned to him the country of Lakhnauti, which had fallen vacant by the death of Sultan Nasiru-d-din. And giving the title of Bahram Khan to Tatar Khan, whom Tughlak Shah had appointed Governor of Sunargaon, and who was an adopted brother of Sultan Muhammad Shah, and bestowing on him in one day one hundred elephants and one thousand horses and one karor gold coins, and conferring on him the royal umbrella and the staff, and making him Viceroy of Bengal and Sunargaon, he sent him to Bengal with all honours. And after fourteen years' administration of that country, Qadr Khan was killed at the hands of his servant, Fakhru-d-din, as will be related hereafter.