The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.57
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.57
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He left two sons, ‘Ādil Khān and Jalāl Khān. The nobles, eager to avoid strife by filling the throne with the least possible delay, summoned Jalāl Khān from Patna and enthroned him at Kālinjar on 26 May, 1545, only four days after his father’s death, under the title of Islām Shāh, a title corrupted by some historians, by the figure known as *imāla*, into Islīm Shāh and again into Salīm Shāh, but the new king’s correct title, as appears from his coins, was Islām Shāh.