Firishta's History (Gulshan-i Ibrāhīmī) 79.3.2

79.3.2

The turufdars, however, with the exception of Mullik Ahmud Bheiry, professed obedience to the royal authority; but their submission was only nominal. If the King, at the desire of his minister, Kasim Bereed, took the field, and the provincial governors perceived any advantage to themselves in the expedition, they accompanied the royal standard, but with a retinue before which the King's sunk into insignificance; and on his return to the capital they quitted him without going through the ceremony of asking leave. To evade the mortification of standing in the royal presence, or performing the customary obeisance to the King, these governors declined attending the court; and Mullik Ahmud Bheiry, who never forgave the King for the death of his father, refused to accompany the royal standard at all, but declared his independence at once, founded the city of Ahmudnuggur, and assuming the honours of majesty, sent ambassadors to Yoosoof Adil Khan and Futteh Oolla Imad-ool-Moolk, in order to prevail on them to follow his example and read the Khootba in their own names. It was accordingly resolved by all three of those chiefs to declare their independence at an early period. Kasim Bereed, who had chosen for himself the turufdary of Ahmudabad Bidur and its vicinity, wished that the forts within his government should be occupied by his own dependents, but the royal garrisons refused to deliver them up.