History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c13.18

c13.18

¹² ‘Ubaid was dead at this time. He was slain by Ghiyas-al-Din Tughluq for spreading the rumour of his death in Telingana. Barani has probably forgotten that, Mr. Gardner Brown charges Barani with deliberate falsehood on the ground of this statement, but I think it is hardly fair to that mediaeval chronicler to be so severe in our judgment. J. U. P. Historical Society, Vol. I, pt. II, p. 9.