Muntakhab al-tawarikh 36: SULTAN QUTBU-D-DIN MUBARAK SHAH ‘ALAU-D-DIN KHILJI.

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Ascended the throne of Dehli with the consent of the Amirs and Vazirs in the early part of the year 717, H. and apportioning appointments and suitable fiefs among his most trusted Amirs, specially distinguished by promoting to high office one Hasan, Barawar bacha, who was very handsome, and had been brought as a captive from Malwa. He had been the protege of Malik Shadi Naib-i-Khas, the Hajib of Sultan ‘Alau-d-Din.
He gave him the title of Khusru Khan. The tribe of Barawar are a family of servile position in Gujrat; but now in the kingdom of Dihli, the Sultan, to such an extent was he infatuated by his beautiful face, raised him, in spite of his unfitness for the office, to the trusted post of Vazir.