The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.338

v3.c20.338

Khusrav Khān's treasonable design had failed principally because he had, although he was in chief command, no personal troops to support him against the nobles of whose contingents his army was composed, and so deeply was the king infatuated that, notwithstanding the revelation of his favourite's treachery, he lent a sympathetic ear to his complaints and permitted him to raise in Gujarāt a corps of 40,000 horse, largely composed of and exclusively commanded by members of his despised tribe. The long meditated treason was now nearly ripe for execution and, after a design for assassinating Mubārak in the hunting field had been abandoned as too dangerous, it was decided that he should be put to death in his palace.