The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.134

v3.c25.134

There now remained only one possible successor, the last descendant of Muhammad Karīm, Mahmūd Khān, son of Bahādur’s brother Latīf Khān, who, during his uncle’s reign, had been placed in the custody of Muhammad of Khāndesh, and was a state prisoner in a fortress in that state. The nobles of Gujarāt summoned him to the throne, but Mubārak II, who had succeeded his brother in Khāndesh, and had almost certainly hoped to receive a summons to the throne of Gujarāt, would not surrender him until a force led by Ikhtiyār Khān invaded Khāndesh. Ikhtiyār Khān carried Mahmūd with him to Ahmadābād, where he was enthroned on August 8, 1587, as Sa‘d-ud-dīn Mahmūd Shāh III.