The Nāṣirī Generations 239: XXI. MALIK NUSRAT KHAN, BADR-UD-DIN, SUNKAR-I-SUFI, THE RUMI.

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Malik Nusrat Khan-i-Sunkar, the Sufi, is a Rumi [Rumilian] by birth. He is a person of exceeding laudable qualities and inestimable virtues, valiant and warlike, and of good disposition, and adorned with all the attributes of manliness and resolution.
He was a slave of the august Sultan Shams-ud-Din [I-yal-timish], and he had, in the reigns of every one of the Sultans [his descendants], served in offices of every degree; but, in the reign of Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, in the year 640 H., when the Turk Amirs rebelled and put the Khwajah Muhazzab, the Wazir, to death, this Malik, Nusrat Khan-i-Sunkar, was one of the Amirs, the principal ringleaders in that outbreak. After that event he became Amir of Kol; and he brought that territory under his control, and, along with his retinue and the people, on the beaten track of equity and justice, he passed his days. In that same year [640 H.], the writer of these words, Minhaj-i-Saraj, chanced to undertake a journey to Lakhanawati. On reaching the district of Kol, this Amir of excellent disposition treated him with great kindness and encouragement.
Subsequently, Malik Nusrat Khan-i-Sunkar obtained other fiefs; and, in the reign of the Sultan of Sultans, Nasir-ud-Din, Mahmud Shah, the territory of Bhianah was made his fief. He continued to remain some time in that part, and many times punished the seditious and evil doers. At the time when Malik 'Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, advanced out of the territory of Sind and appeared before the gate of Dihli, Malik Nusrat Khan-i-Sunkar, with a numerous force, reached the city of Dihli from Bhianah. The inhabitants of the city, and grandees of the Court, were placed in safety by his arrival at the head of a body of troops. After that affair, in the year 657 H., from the implicit faith which the Sultan of Islam placed in Malik Nusrat Khan-i-Sunkar, and the powerful support of the Khan-i-Mu'azzam, Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, the preserved city of Tabarhindah, and Sunam, Jhajhar, and Lakhwal, and the frontiers, as far as the ferries over the river Biah, all were conferred upon him and his title became Nusrat Khan. On those frontiers he performed distinguished services, and assembled a numerous body of troops ; and, up to the date of this book’s [being written], by the sublime command, he is still [stationed] on that frontier, with ample military resources, and a large army. May the Almighty long preserve the Sultan of Sultans upon the throne of sovereignty!