Twilight of the Sultanate c15.s1.83

c15.s1.83

A retrospective glance at the relations between these two brothers leaves no doubt in one's mind that Ibrāhīm Shāh had always been guilty of breach of promise. It was he who had repudiated the convention dividing the kingdom between the two. It was again he who had violated the terms on which Ādam Khan, negotiating for the Sultan, had secured Jalāl's submission. In the end also, while pretending to send Jalāl Khan to Hansi as prisoner, he had got him murdered. Ibrāhīm's treatment of his other brothers also does not do him credit. We do not hear of their release even after the trouble with Jalāl was over. In all probability they perished in their dungeons, except for Mahmūd who was placed on the throne for some time on Bābur's arrival in Hindustan.