Twilight of the Sultanate c6.s1.8

c6.s1.8

Ghayāsuddīn's first task was to strike at his disestablished uncle who was restless with discontent. He sent his Vazīr, Khwājā Jahān and Bahadur Nāhar, a converted Rajput from Mewat and a prominent figure in the Delhi politics, to the hills of Sirmur to which Muhammad had fled, but the latter escaped to Suket and therefrom to Nagarkot, about a hundred miles north of the town of Sirmur.⁵ But while Muhammad was still unsubdued and utmost caution was called for on the part of Ghayāsuddīn, the latter, being young and inexperienced, gave himself up to wine and debauchery. And when he imprisoned his real brother Salār Shāh for no ostensible reason,⁶ his cousin Abū Bakr, son of Zafar Khan and grandson of Fīrōz, rose against him, murdered the Sultan and the Vazīr and himself ascended the throne on 19 February, 1389 (21 Safar, 791 H).⁷