[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) › [Tārīkh-i Firishta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta) › [History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs) › 106.2 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 106.2 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 106.2 - **Language:** English ### [106.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106.2) — Queen Chand calls a council of war — she recommends the surrender of the fort — her opinion overruled — she is seized by the garrison, and murdered. — Ahmudnuggur taken by storm, and the garrison put to the sword. — Bahadur Nizam Shah conveyed prisoner to the fort of Gualiar. The Queen Chand having succeeded in obtaining the person of Bahadur Nizam Shah from his imprisonment in Chawund, he was publicly proclaimed King of Ahmudnuggur, when she appointed her friend and adviser, Mahomed Khan, to the office of peshwa; but he in a short time (as is the way of the world) after establishing his authority promoted his own adherents and relatives to the chief offices of the empire. It was unlikely, however, that those persons who had distinguished themselves in the war should now tamely submit to degradation; he thought it politic, therefore, to seize and confine Nehung Khan and Shumsheer Khan, Abyssinians. On which the rest of the chiefs, apprehensive of a similar fate, fled the kingdom. The Dehly troops had occupied Berar, and were still in that quarter. Mahomed Khan's influence and power at the capital was unrestrained; and Queen Chand saw, at this period, the approaching dissolution of her authority. She accordingly wrote a letter to her nephew, Ibrahim Adil Shah, begging his interference, and requesting that a considerable force might be sent to re-organise the government, now usurped by Mahomed Khan. - [Previous: 106.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106.1) - [Next: 106.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106.3) - [Up: 106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.106.2) · Pramāṇa