The Nāṣirī Generations 237.14

237.14

It is not to be wondered at that “the coin does not give him the name Husamuddin.” Husam-ud-Din was his title before he assumed that of Ghiyas-ud-Din, which he did—not at all an unusual thing—with the title of Sultan. In 628 H., I-yal-timish had to move against this Khalj Sultan, who, doubtless, was getting too powerful to please the Dihli sovereign, and he was overthrown, and “secured,” as our author remarks, much in the same way, probably, as Taj-ud-Din, I-yal-duz, was—in the grave. With him the Khalj dynasty finally terminated. I-yal-timish now conferred the “Lakhanawati” upon Malik 'Ala-ud-Din, Jani—the Shah-zadah of Turkistan—but he was shortly after deposed, and then governors, or more correctly feudatories, were appointed from Dihli, and the first of them was Malik Saif-ud-Din, I-bak-i-Yughan-Tat, as he is styled at page 729, which see. It will be noticed from the above that Mr. Blochmann has fallen into considerable error [See “Remarks on Mr. Thomas’s readings,” in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. x., December, 1872], in assuming that “Daulat shah seems to be the Malik 'Alauddin Jani mentioned in the Tabaqat i Nasiri (Bibl. Ind. Edition), pp. 174, 178).” Our author very distinctly shows that they were two totally different persons.