The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c27.111
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c27.111
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The decline of Ahmad's mental and bodily powers had for some time been apparent. He had recently allowed the management of all public business to fall into the hands of Miyān Mahmūd Nizām-ul-Mulk, a native of the Deccan who had succeeded Malik-ut-Tujjār as lieutenant of the kingdom on the latter's transfer to the government of Daulatābād, and shortly after this time he died¹, at the age of sixty-three or sixty-four.