The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.478

v3.c20.478

On his way towards Delhi Fīrūz learned that the aged minister, Khvāja Jahān, had proclaimed in the capital, under the title of Ghiyās-ud-dīn Muhammad, a child whom he declared to be the son of Muhammad Tughluq, but whom the historians represent as supposititious. We have, however, no impartial chronicle of this reign and there is much to justify the belief that the child was Muhammad's son and that the allegation that he was not was an attempt by panegyrists to improve their patron's feeble hereditary title¹.