The Akbarī Generations 90: Husain Khan Tukriya
Tabakát-i Akbarí of Nizámu-d dín Ahmad (extracts) 90
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He was called Tukriya, from the fact of his having issued an order, when he was Governor of Lahore, to the effect that Hindus should bear on their shoulders a discriminating mark, which being called in Hindi, Tukri, obtained for him the nickname of Tukriya. He was nephew and son-in-law of Imam Mahdi Kasim Khan, and was a mansabdar of 2000. He died A.H. 983.