The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.79
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.79
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On the death of Islām Shāh the nobles enthroned in Gwalior, on 22 November, 1554, his son Fīrūz, then aged only twelve years. The minister and regent was Tāj Khān Kararānī, the murderer of Khavāss Khān, and the power which he wielded excited the envy of the other nobles, who, by arousing the suspicions of the young king’s mother against him, induced her to remove him and appoint him to the government of Mālwā.