History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.42

c6.42

Edward Thomas is wrong in speaking of her as the enforced wife of two succeeding Sultans of Dihli, one of the brothers and murderers of her husband and the other the foul pariah Khusrau. In a matter like this Amir Khusrau's testimony is more reliable, for he was specially interested in Deval Rani and Khizr Khan, and her fate must have been known to him. It seems probable that she escaped indignity at the hands of the Parwari. Her Rajput pride would have surely kicked at such a union. Before slaying Khizr Khan, Qutb-al-Din sent word to him that he would make him governor of a province, if he sent Deval Rani to him but he refused. Qutb-al-Din became angry at this.