Twilight of the Sultanate c14.5

c14.5

In the camp the nobles who did not want Nizām Khan began to discuss the question of succession with all earnestness and heat, since now an immediate choice had to be made. According to Ferishta some of them were in favour of Āzam Humayūn while some others wanted Bārbak Shāh, the eldest surviving son of Bahlūl.³ While they were thus deliberating Nizām Khan's mother queen Zeba,⁴ who was watching the proceedings from behind the curtain, addressed the assembly and pleaded for Nizām's claims.