The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.158

v3.c20.158

Raziyya now laid aside female attire, and appeared in public, both in the court and in the camp, clothed as a man and unveiled. This seems to have given no cause for scandal, but she aroused the resentment of the nobles by the appointment of an African named Jalāl-ud-dīn Yāqūt to the post of master of the horse, and by distinguishing him with her favour. Later historians suggest or insinuate that there was impropriety in her relations with him, but the contemporary chronicler makes no such allegation, and it is unnecessary to believe that she stooped to such a connexion, for the mere advancement of an African was sufficient to excite the jealousy of the Turkish nobles, who formed a close corporation.