[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [General histories](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari) › [Tabakat-i Akbari of Nizamu-d din Ahmad (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot) › 59 # The Akbarī Generations 59: Death of Khán-khánán Mu'nim Khán. Tabakát-i Akbarí of Nizámu-d dín Ahmad (extracts) 59 - **Language:** English ### [59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot.59) When Khán-khánán, with his mind at ease about Dáúd, returned to Tánda, the capital of the country, under the influence of his evil destiny, he took a dislike to Tánda, and crossing the Ganges, he founded a home for himself at the fortress of Gaur, which in old times had been the capital of Bengal, and he ordered that all the soldiers and raiyats should remove from Tanda to Gaur. In the height of the rains the people were involved in the trouble of expatriation. The air of Gaur is extremely unhealthy, and in former times, the many diseases which distressed its inhabitants induced the rulers to abandon the place, and raise the town of Tanda. Sickness of many kinds now broke out among the people, and every day numbers of men departed from Gaur to the grave, and bade farewell to relatives and friends. By degrees the pestilence reached to such a pitch that men were unable to bury the dead, and cast the corpses into the river. Every day the deaths of many amirs and officers were reported to Khan-khanan, but he took no warning, and made no resolution to change his residence. He was so great a man that no one had the courage to remove the cotton of heedlessness from his ears, and bring him to a sense of the actual position. His own health became affected, and he grew worse, and at the end of ten days, in the month of Safar, 983, he departed this life. His nobles and officers, who had so often met to congratulate him, now assembled to lament him. They placed Shaham Khan Jalair in command, and made a report of the facts to the Emperor. Khan-khanan had no son, so all his property escheated to the royal exchequer, and an account of it was made out. When the despatch reached His Majesty, he appointed Khan-jahan, who had been supreme governor of the Panjab, to be governor of Bengal. He raised him to the dignity of amiru-l umara, commended the raiyats and people to his tender care, bestowed upon him gifts of embroidered coats, jewelled swords, and a richly-caparisoned horse, and dismissed him to his government. Khan-jahan, furnished with full credentials, then departed to assume his authority. - [Previous: 58.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot.58.4) - [Next: 60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot.60) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tabaqat-i-akbari~en-elliot.59) · Pramāṇa