Twilight of the Sultanate c14.8

c14.8

But 'Isa Khan Lodī, son of Tātār Khan Lodī, and cousin of Nizām, snubbed her saying: "The son of a goldsmith's daughter was not fit to be the king as it is proverbial that monkeys make but bad carpenters". His insolence towards the widowed queen annoyed Khan-i-Khānān who rebuked 'Isa Khan. An altercation between the two only strengthened Khan-i-Khānān's support for Nizām. He took his party to Jalālī, 11 miles from Kol, together with the corpse of the deceased monarch and summoned Nizām Khan there. Intrigued at the situation, the prince consulted Qutlugh Khan, the Sharqī Vazīr, who after his capture had been won over and was living at Delhi, and on the latter's advice Nizām started post-haste for Jalālī. His arrival there disarmed his opponents who left for their respective fiefs. He sent his father's body to Delhi to be interred there, and with the support of Khan-i-Jahān, Khan-i-Khānān Farmūlī and the majority of the nobles⁵ he ascended the throne on Friday 17 July, 1489 (18 Sh'abān, 894 H)⁶ in the palace of Fīrōz Shāh on the bank of the Kali Nadi,⁷ with the title of Sikandar Shāh.