Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s1.25

c9.s1.25

¹⁹ Saiyyadus S‘adāt, Saiyyad Sālim, was chief of the fraternity known as the Saiyyads of Bārah, whose ancestors had settled in Muzaffarnagar. In course of time they became great military leaders and served the Sultans of Delhi well. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they held many important offices in the State. T.M.S., Basu; 189n. Also Blochmann, Āīn, II, 425 ff.