The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.340

v3.c20.340

When Mubārak's head was recognised the royal guards on duty at the palace fled, and left all in the hands of Khusrav's tribesmen. The palace was illuminated and all the great nobles then present in the capital were summoned to court, and hastened thither in ignorance of what had happened. They were detained until the morning and were then forced to attend a court at which the outcaste was proclaimed king under the title of Nāsir-ud-dīn Khusrav Shāh. The proclamation was followed by a massacre of many of the old servants of 'Alā-ud-dīn and Mubārak, whose known fidelity rendered them dangerous to the usurper; and the Khaljī dynasty, which had reigned for no more than thirty years, but had given to the Muslim empire in India its first administrator, was wiped out. Khusrav possessed himself of the person of the unfortunate princess Deval Devī, who had been successively the wife of Khizr Khān and of his brother and murderer Mubārak. Against the union with the foul outcaste who became her third husband 'her proud Rājput blood must indeed have risen.'