Riyaz al-salatin 65.1

65.1

Syed Husain Sharif Maki, during the period of his Vizarat, used to treat the people with affability. He used to tell them : "Muzaffar Shah is very stingy, and rude in behaviour. Although I advise him to attend to the happiness of the army and the independent kings had its adopted home, because Husain Shah first obtained power in the adjacent district of Faridpur or Fathahabad (which latter at the time was included in, or rather included portions of, Jessore), where his first coins were struck in 899 A.H. (Marsden's pl. XXXVIII, No. DCCLXXIX), and also because Husain Shah's son, Nasrat Shah, erected a mint at the neighbouring place of Khalifatabad (or Bagerhat, formerly in Jessore district) and minted there coins in the lifetime of his father in 922 A.H. (see p. 297, J.A.S.B. for 1873 and pl. IX, No. 10). Another circumstance which also supports the above theory of Professor Blochmann about the locale of Alau-ddin Hussain Shah's adopted home, appears to be this, that the names of Husain Shah, his brother Yusuf Shah, and his sons Nasrat Shah, and Mahmud Shah, are found in connection with several parganas of Jessore (Jasar) district (as formerly constituted, before its being split up into Pabna, Khulna and Faridpur districts), such as parganas Nasratshahi and Mahmudshahi and Yusufshahi, and Mahmudabad (a whole Sirkar including Northern Jessore or Jasar and Bosnah). In regard to Alauddin Husain Shah, Professor Blochmann observes (J.A.S. for 1873, p.