The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.85

v3.c28.85

Burhān received him with extravagant demonstrations of respect, treated him as his sovereign, and promised to recover Bīdar for him, but he soon discovered that his host had no intention of fulfilling his promise. Burhān’s chief adviser, Shāh Tāhir, condemned the folly of according the honours of royalty to a stray mendicant, and the unfortunate Kalīmullāh was no longer admitted to court, but when he shortly afterwards died, not without suspicion of poison, his body was sent for burial to Bīdar, where it still rests. He was the last of his line, and on his flight from Bīdar Amīr ‘Alī Barīd was free to assert openly that independence which he had long enjoyed in fact.