The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.4

v3.c28.4

The new minister, who had the faults of his unfortunate class, alienated the nobles by his arrogance, which led to his ruin. Humāyūn, the king’s eldest son, a brutal youth who lived to become the disgrace of his house, desired him to attend to some particular business and when the eunuch procrastinated took him to task for his negligence. He insolently replied that he would not tolerate the prince’s interference in affairs of state and Humāyūn employed one of the king’s esquires to assassinate him, and protected the murderer. ‘Alā-ud-dīn, who in the early days of his reign was averse from taking life, was content, at his son’s intercession, to leave the assassin to his care.