The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.5

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Ibrāhīm had at least three sons, and one of them, Hasan Khān, had eight sons, of whom the eldest, Farīd, was born some years before 1489. Ibrāhīm held assignments at first in the Punjab, but afterwards in the *pargana* of Nārnaul, under the Afghān Jamāl Khān, who held the large assignment of Hissār, and on his death his son Hasan Khān succeeded; when Sikandar Lodī defeated his rebellious brother Bārbak, but permitted him to retain the government of Jaunpur,³ Jamāl Khān was transferred to that province, and received there large assignments which enabled him to prevent Bārbak from again disturbing the peace of the realm. With him he took all the members of the Sūr tribe or clan serving in Hissār and Nārnaul, and Hasan Khān received the *parganas* of Sasarām,⁴ Hājīpur⁵ and Khavāsspur Tāndā⁶ for the maintenance of 500 horse. Of Hasan’s eight sons only four are of any importance, Farīd and Nizām, the two eldest, born of his senior wife, an Afghān, and Sulaimān and Ahmad, the two youngest, born of a Hindu concubine. He had wearied of his Afghān wife, and was entirely submissive to his concubine. She was devoted to the interests of her own sons and so resented any favour shown to her stepsons that Farīd, while yet a lad, chafing under his father’s coldness to him, fled from their home at Sasarām, and took refuge with Jamāl Khān at Jaunpur. Jamāl Khān urged Farīd to return to his father and to pursue his studies, but Farīd refused to return as Jaunpur was a better place for study than Sasarām. Such progress did he make that his father, when he visited Jaunpur, invited him to return and placed him in charge of the two *parganas*, Hājīpur and Khavāsspur Tāndā.