The History of Mubārak Shāh 5.5

5.5

Still Sa'dat Khan could not take the fort, and fell back. He encamped near the hauz-i khass; and finding the fortifications of Dehli impregnable, and the rainy season coming on, he raised the siege, and marched to Firozabad. He conspired with the amirs, who supported him, to raise some one of the sons of the late Sultan Firoz Shah to the sovereignty, and place him on the throne in Firozabad. Nusrat Khan, son of Fath Khan, son of Sultan Firoz Shah, was in Mewat. They brought him forward, and in the month Rabi'u-l awwal raised him to the throne, in the palace of Firozabad, under the title of Nasiru-d din Nusrat Shah. But he was a mere puppet, and all the direction of affairs was in the hands of Sa'dat Khan. Only a few days had passed, when some of the old Firoz Shahi slaves, and some of the elephant-keepers, attached themselves to Nasiru-d din, and while Sa'dat Khan was unsuspicious of danger, they placed Nasiru-d din upon an elephant, and suddenly attacked him, before he could gather his friends around him. Unable to resist, he escaped from the palace by the door of the harem. Some of his soldiers joined him, and with them he fled to Dehli, and presented himself to Mukarrab Khan, by whom, a few days afterwards, he was treacherously seized and killed.