Twilight of the Sultanate c12.s1.1

c12.s1.1

AFTER MUBARAK SHAH'S murder Sarwarul Mulk, to cover up his crime, immediately raised to the throne Mubārak's nephew and adopted son Muhammad, an offspring of the late King's brother Farīd Khan.¹ The formality of obtaining the assent of the "Amīrs, Maliks, Imāms, Saiyyads, grandees, people, 'Ulemā and Qazīs" was also gone through.² All the nobles who were staunch in their loyalty to the late Sultan were sent to prison.³