The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c9.43

c9.43

Aetigin entered into his position with zest and even assumed some of the royal prerogatives, like keeping an elephant and playing the *naubat* at his gate, and also married one of the king’s sisters. This flaunting of his privileged position soon made Bahram sick of the whole affair; he could not willingly submit to the encroachments on his prerogatives. Unable to swallow the *naib’s* effrontery and seeking a way out of the arrangement to which he had agreed, obviously, under compulsion, he had the *naib* murdered in his office².