History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.37

c7.37

B a h a - al-Din Gashtasp's rebellion. Barani makes no mention of this rebellion, though in one place he speaks of him as Sultan Tughluq Shah's sister's son. Ibn Batūtah is the only contemporary writer who gives a detailed account of the rebellion. He also calls him Sultan Tughluq Shah's sister's son, but his information regarding the rebellion must have been obviously derived from persons whom he met in Hindustan after his arrival. Even Ibn Batūtah, though he mentions the rebellion among the earliest events of Muhammad's reign, gives no date. The only earlier authority that favours us with a date is the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* which places it towards the close of 727 A.H. after the transfer of the capital to Devagiri. Badāoni copies this history as appears from his narrative, but makes a mistake in saying that the rebellion occurred in Dihli. Firishta in the sequence of events rightly places this rebellion before the transfer of the capital, and says that it was during this rebellion that the Sultan was much pleased with the situation of Devagiri and considered it more central than Dihli. But his date 739 A.H. is incorrect, for if we accept his order of events, the rebellion must take place sometime in 727 A.H. before the transfer of the capital, which was certainly effected in this year as is established by numismatic evidence. Hajji-ad-Dabir's authority Husām Khan whom he often quotes gives a brief account of the rebellion, but his chronology is highly defective. Robert Sewell also accepts 727 A.H. which receives