Twilight of the Sultanate c15.5

c15.5

Consequently, Ibrāhīm was elected to the throne unanimously, but the nobles vitiated their choice by having two monarchs instead of one.³ Ibrāhīm was to occupy the throne of Delhi and rule up to the boundary of the kingdom of Jaunpur, while his brother Jalāl Khan, who was already governor of Kalpi, was to rule from Kalpi to Jaunpur, that is, in the eastern and southern part of the Sultanate with his capital at Jaunpur.⁴