Twilight of the Sultanate c15.19

c15.19

Ibrāhīm Lodī accepted the arrangement without protest. To begin with he probably did not suspect any evil motives on the part of the nobles. Even if he did, he was helpless. He could be the Sultan only with their consent. Too much assertion of authority and too much greed for having the whole might have cost him even his half of the kingdom. Moreover, Jalāl Khan was after all his own younger brother. He could rule in Agra and Delhi and his brother at Jaunpur just as his father and uncle Bārbak Shāh had done before.