The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.82
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.82
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The nobles now conspired to raise to the throne Bahrām Khān, Haidar Shāh’s younger brother, but Hasan Khān, his son, who had been raiding the Punjab, returned to maintain his claim to the throne, and when his father, in December, 1471, or January, 1472, slipped, in a drunken fit, on a polished floor, and died of the injuries which he received, Ahmad Aswad, one of the most powerful of the courtiers, caused him to be proclaimed king under the title of Hasan Shāh.