[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate) › [Ṭabaqāt-i Nāṣirī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri) › [Tabakat-i-Nasiri](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty) › 141.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 141.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 141.1 - **Language:** English ### [141.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.141.1) Amir 'Abbas was a warlike, intrepid, and pitiless man, and endowed with great manliness, strength, and activity. When he attained the full vigour of youth, and his whole strength, he entered secretly into a compact with a party of adherents and young men, and gained them over to his own rebellious views. He then suddenly rose, and seized his uncle, Amir Abu-’Ali, ruler of Ghur, and imprisoned him, and appropriated the whole of his uncle’s property, his treasures and his hoards, to himself. He was exceedingly determined, cruel, and tyrannical; and lawlessness and injustice were engrafted in his nature. He commenced to act illegally, and began to seize people’s possessions and property, so much so that the commonalty, and his own immediate followers, were quite miserable, and became perfectly helpless in his hands, and to such degree, that, for a period of seven years during his reign, no animal—such as the horse, camel, cow, or sheep—brought forth young, and the rain from the heavens ceased to fall; and, according to one story, women also did not bear children, through the ill-luck consequent on his tyranny. - [Previous: 140.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.140.10) - [Next: 141.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.141.2) - [Up: 141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.141) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.141.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.141.1) · Pramāṇa