The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.80

v4.c14.80

About a month after his departure Mubāriz Khān, who had assured himself of the support of many of the disaffected nobles, arrived at Gwalior at the head of a large force. He was the son of Nizām Khān, the younger brother of Sher Shāh, and brother of the young king’s mother, who, as already described, had twice saved his life when her husband wished to remove him as a danger to their son. On the pretext of offering his congratulations to the young king he forced his way, all travel-stained as he was, into his presence, and the boy’s mother, divining his intentions, besought him, as she had saved his life, to spare that of her son, but the monster seized his nephew, severed his head from his body, and seven days later ascended the throne under the title of ‘Ādil Shāh or Muhammad ‘Ādil.