The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.44

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He made Rajamundry his headquarters for nearly three years and, having completely subjugated Telingāna, prepared to invade the eastern Carnatic, but, before setting out, provided for the efficient administration of Telingāna by dividing it into two provinces, and appointed Malik Hasan to the eastern, or Rajamundry, division and A‘zam Khān, son of the rebel Sikandar, to Warangal, which became the capital of the western division. The kingdom had outgrown the old provincial system established by the first two kings of the dynasty. Its extension to the sea coast on the west and on the east had doubled the area of the old provinces of Gulbarga and Daulatābād, and very much more than doubled that of Telingāna, the partition of which was part of a scheme for the division of the other provinces; but Malik Hasan, who had hoped to assume the government of the whole vast province, bitterly resented its dismemberment, and resolved to destroy Mahmūd Gāvān, the author of the scheme. He begged that he might be permitted to accompany the king on his expedition into the Carnatic and to leave his son Ahmad as the deputy at Rajamundry. Ahmad bore a higher reputation as a soldier than his father and had been provided with a fief in the Māhūr district of Berar because it had been considered dangerous to employ father and son in the same province, but Hasan’s prayer was granted, and his son was summoned from Māhūr and installed in Rajamundry.