The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c15.27

v4.c15.27

The execution of Tārdī Beg Khān had excited much hostility against Bairam Khān, and an open breach occurred between him and “the foster-father cohort” on the march from Mānkot, when he suspected that the accidental finish of an elephant-fight near his tent was due to the machinations of Atga Khān and protested to Māham Anaga. The quarrel was patched up, but Pīr Muhammad Khān, formerly a servant of Bairam Khān, had gone over to the harem party, and his influence was ever directed towards the breeding of strife. The execution of Musāhib Beg, who had presumed on his father’s services to Humāyūn to treat the protector with discourtesy and a similar exercise of arbitrary authority at Kābul by Mun‘im Khān, which was approved by Bairam Khān, provided the enemies of the latter with further material for charges against him.