Muntakhab al-tawarikh 31.1

31.1

In the sixteenth year of his age, in succession to his grandfather, by the intervention of Malik Kachhan, who was called Itimar, and other Amirs who were disaffected to the Martyred Khan, succeeded to the throne of Empire. Then having bestowed Multan upon Khusru Khan with his family and dependents, they sent him off there under some pretext and exiled his adherents, and when the Empire became established he appointed all the officers of the state to their old posts in the kingdom, and Malik Nizamu-d-Din was appointed Dadbeg and they gave Khwaja Khatiru-d-Din the title of Khwaja-i-Jahan, and Malik Shahik Amir Hajib that of Wazir Khan, and Malik Qiyamu-l-Mulk obtained the post of Vakildar: and after six months he left Dihli and founded the palace of Kilughari, which is now a ruin, near the ford of Khwaja Khizr on the banks of the river Jumna; there he held public audiences, and by craft getting hold of the Mughals who had newly become Moslims, put the majority of them to death, and banished a certain number of them. The chief author and cause of this action was Malik Nizamu-d-Din ‘Alaqa the Wazir (this Nizamu-d-Din ‘Alaqa is the same in whose honour Muhammad ‘Aufi composed the books Jami‘u-l-Hikayat and Tashratu, and to Malik Chhaju (who eventually became grantee of Karra and Manikpur, and whom Mir Khusru eulogised in the Qiranu-s-Sa'dain in these words, Khan of Karra, Chhaju, conqueror of countries, Who hast encircled thy feet with anklets formed from the lips of Khans)