The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 6.6.6

6.6.6

From the time when Mirza Shahrukh came from Badakhshan and had the good fortune to wait on my father until now, nearly 25 years have passed. For some time the people of Badakhshan, on account of the oppression and injury they have to undergo from the Uzbegs, have given notoriety to a Badakhshan boy, who had on his face the marks of nobility, as really the son of Mirza Shahrukh and of the race of Mirza Sulaiman. A large number of the scattered Uymaqs, and the hill-people of Badakhshan, whom they call Gharchal (Georgians ?), collected round him, and showing enmity and disputing with the Uzbegs, took some of the districts of Badakhshan out of their possession. The Uzbegs attacked that false Mirza and captured him, and placing his head on a spear sent it round to the whole country of Badakhshan. Again the seditious people of Badakhshan quickly produced another Mirza. Up to now several Mirzas have been killed. It appears to me that as long as there is any trace of the people of Badakhshan they will keep up this disturbance. The third son of the Mirza is Mirza Sultan, who excels in appearance and disposition all the other sons of the Mirza. I begged him from his revered father, and have kept him in my own service, and having taken great pains with him reckon him as my own child. In disposition and manners he has no likeness to his brothers. After my accession I gave him the rank of 2,000 personal and 1,000 horse, and sent him to the Subah of Malwa, which was his father's place.