[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) › 73.2.2 # Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 73.2.2 History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Briggs) 73.2.2 - **Language:** English ### [73.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2.2) In the female apartments, he allowed no more than three attendants to one lady, who were always of the same nation, and spoke the same language as their mistress. Merchants were constantly employed to purchase females of all nations, from amongst whom he made selections to supply the vacancies occasioned by death or other causes among his mistresses or their servants. In his haram were Arabians, Circassians, Georgians, Toorks, Russians, Europeans, Chinese, Afghans, Rajpoots, Bengalees, Guzeraties, Tulinganies, Maharattins, and others; and he could converse with each in her own language. He divided his attention so equally among them, that each lady fancied herself most beloved by the King. He read the Taurat and Anjeel, and respected the tenets of all religions; but he admired that part of the faith of Mahomed above all others, which commanded the concealment of women from the eyes of strangers, and which forbade the use of wine. Feroze Shah, on ascending the throne, appointed his brother Ahmud Khan Ameer-ool-Omra, with the title of Khan Khanan, and he raised Meer Feiz Oolla Anjoo, his preceptor, to the office of Vakeel-oos-Sultunut, with the title of Mullik Naib; honours were also conferred on many of the family of Bahmuny. Historians unitedly agree, that he made twenty-four campaigns against the Hindoos; but the particulars of a few only are related by Moolla Dawood Bidury, in the Tohfut-oos-Sulateen. - [Previous: 73.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2.1) - [Next: 73.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2.3) - [Up: 73.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.general.tarikh-i-firishta~en-briggs.73.2.2) · Pramāṇa