The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.74

v3.c24.74

Early in his reign Zain-ul-‘Ābidīn associated with himself in the government, and even designated as his heir, his younger brother Muhammad, but Muhammad predeceased him, and though the king admitted his son Haidar Khān to the confidential position which his father had held the birth of three sons of his own excluded his nephew from the succession. These were Ādam Khān, Hājī Khān, and Bahrām Khān, three headstrong young men whose strife embittered his declining years. Hājī Khān, his father’s favourite, was the least unworthy of the throne, and Bahrām employed himself chiefly in fomenting dissensions between his two elder brothers.