[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) › 241.1 # The Nāṣirī Generations 241.1 Tabakat-i-Nasiri 241.1 - **Language:** English ### [241.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.241.1) Malik Sher Khan is a person consummately brave and sagacious, and distinguished for all princely qualities, and famed for all kingly accomplishments. He is the uncle's son of the Khan-i-Mu'azzam, Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam, and, in Turkistan, their fathers have been persons of importance, and among the families of the Ilbari \[tribe\] have borne the name of Khan, and, for their numerous clan and dependents, have been noted and renowned, each of whom will, Please God, in the account of that Malik of the Maliks of the universe, be separately mentioned. Sher Khan was the slave of the august Sultan \[I-yal-timish\] who purchased him; and he performed much service before the throne, and the signs of worthiness were indicated upon his brow. He served the Sultans of that dynasty much in every rank and degree; and, when he attained greatness, Sultan 'Ala-ud-Din, Mas'ud Shah, at the time he led an army from the capital towards Lohor with the object of repelling the army of infidel Mughals which was before the walls of the fortress of Uchchah, assigned to Malik Sher Khan the fortress of Tabarhindah and the whole of its dependencies as his fief. Afterwards, when the Karlughs wrested Multan out of the hands of Malik 'Izz-ud-Din, Balban-i-Kashlu Khan, Malik Sher Khan led an army from the preserved city of Tabarhindah towards Multan, and liberated it again out of the hands of the Karlughs, and placed therein Malik Ikhtiyar-ud-Din, Kurez. - [Previous: 240.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.240.3) - [Next: 241.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.241.2) - [Up: 241](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.241) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.241.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.sultanate.tabaqat-i-nasiri~en-raverty.241.1) · Pramāṇa