The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c9.s3.14

c9.s3.14

The chronicler philosophises by saying: These nobles accumulated so much wealth by lawful and unlawful means (*vajeh na vajeh*), and then leaving it undertook the last journey where they were to account for all this wealth.⁵⁴ But such ill-gotten gains at least created havoc in this world, because, according to Afif himself, much of the trouble that came about in the time of Sultan Muhammad (son of Firoz) was due to the accumulation of such wealth in the hands of a few nobles.⁵⁵