Tarikh-i Daʾudi 11.1.3

11.1.3

Instead of this, Islam Shah directed that arrangements for the giving of alms should be made at each of the saráís, and that indigent travellers should be supplied with whatever they needed, and that mendicants should receive a daily pittance, in order that they might be contented and at ease. In certain districts he issued entirely new ordinances, and allowed stipends of fifty, two hundred, two hundred and fifty, five hundred, and a thousand. (In each of these districts) he appointed Persian and Hindi writers. He portioned his troops into divisions of five, ten, and twenty thousand men, to each of which he allotted one sardár, one Afghán munsif, one Hindustani judge, and two eunuchs of the palace. To those who had received stipends during the reign of Sher Sháh he gave lands and parganas. From the borders of Sunárgáon to those of Bengal, and from Bengal to Kábul, he garrisoned the entire country with his troops. He had, whilst Prince, 6000 horsemen with him, and he now promoted all of them, each according to his deserts. He made privates [fard] officers [girohdár], and officers nobles. These regulations of Islám Sháh caused those of Sher Sháh to fall into disuse. Many of Sher Sháh's principal nobles were disgusted at what they regarded as acts tending to dishonour them, and became ill-disposed towards Islám Sháh. He, in his turn, was likewise suspicious of these grandees, and thus the relations which existed between the great chiefs and the King were changed in their nature.