The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.11

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But Hasan was still subservient to his concubine, who was so enraged by his praise of her stepson that she ceased to admit him to intercourse with her, and thus compelled him to promise that he would make over the administration of Farīd’s *parganas* to her son, Sulaimān. Farīd, after vainly reproaching his father with breach of faith, as he had promised that he would not in future neglect Farīd, left the district and sought service in Āgra, at the court of Ibrāhīm Lodī. He found a patron in Daulat Khān, who held the command of 12,000 horse, and earned his approbation and an offer of assistance. Farīd complained of his father’s injustice and begged that the king might be moved to confer on him the two *parganas* of which his father had deprived him, but Ibrāhīm Lodī was in a bad humour and refused to do anything for an undutiful son. Daulat Khān temporarily satisfied Farīd by promoting him in his own service, and shortly afterwards, on his father’s death, obtained for him a royal grant in succession to his father. This land was now in possession of his half-brother, Sulaimān, who fled when Farīd came to take possession of it and took refuge with another of the tribe, Muhammad Khān Sūr, who held the *pargana* of Chaund,¹ and who, having been on bad terms with Hasan, welcomed the opportunity of fomenting the quarrels of his sons. He proposed to Farīd a division of the assignment, but Farīd replied that while he was prepared to share his father’s property with his brothers he would not give up any share in the administration of the area granted to him by the king.