The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.38

v3.c24.38

Nusrat Shāh, who had, before his accession, exercised almost regal power as governor of Bāgdī, or the Ganges delta, and had coined money in his own name, was a prince of gentle disposition and strong natural affections, for he not only refrained from following the barbarous eastern custom of slaying, mutilating, or imprisoning his brothers, but doubled the provision which his father had made for them. Early in his reign he invaded Tirhut, attacked, defeated, and slew the raja, and appointed ‘Alā-ud-dīn and Makhdūm-i-‘Ālam, his own brothers-in-law, to the government of the reconquered province.