The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.57

v3.c28.57

Yūsuf ‘Ādil Khān, with most of the Foreign and many Deccani officers, had been absent at Goa at the time of Muhammad’s unexpected death, and on his return he marched to Bīdar to make his obeisance to the new king. Disregarding the rule which prohibited the attendance of armed retainers at court he entered the palace with 200 picked troops. Malik Nāib had drawn up 500 of the royal guards at the gate, but none ventured to oppose Yūsuf, who, as a precaution against assassination, compelled Malik Nāib and Qāsim Barīd-ul-Mamālik to precede him into the royal presence, where he took his place above them, notwithstanding Malik Nāib’s high office. On leaving the palace Yūsuf took Malik Nāib by the hand and compelled him to accompany him as far as the gate. He lodged in the city with a guard of a thousand men while Daryā Khān, with the rest of his army, remained on the alert without the walls. He resisted all Malik Nāib’s attempts to induce him to bring his troops into the city, where the Deccanis might have surprised them, and when the nobles met for the purpose of apportioning the great offices of state acquiesced in the retention of the principal places in the capital by the Deccani faction. Malik Nāib remained lieutenant of the kingdom, Qivām-ul-Mulk the elder became minister, Qivām-ul-Mulk the younger master of the ceremonies, and Dilāvar Khān the African assistant minister of finance.