History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.97

c7.97

friend of the late Sultan, and Muhammad used to address him as his uncle. Whenever he came to the capital, he fully respected his avuncular dignity. During the regime of Khusrau, Kishlū Khan had been a valued lieutenant and co-adjutor of Ghazi malik and had joined forces with the latter at Depalpur in order to put an end to the usurpation of the unclean renegade. On his assumption of royal authority the victorious general rewarded his fidelity by reposing full confidence in him and according to him a brotherly treatment. The present ruler on his accession to the throne treated him with special respect, and conferred upon him rich rewards and honours to signify his esteem for him. When the Sultan heard of his rebellion at Devagiri, he was deeply disconcerted, for Kishlū Khan held the fiefs of Ucch, Sindh and Multan which occupied, a valuable position towards the northern frontier. The causes of the rebellion have been variously described by Ibn Batūṭah and the author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* who is followed by Badāoni and Firishta. But Hajjī-ad-Dabīr, who is an independent authoritiy, relying upon the information supplied by the oft-quoted Husām Khan corroborates the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi*. According to Ibn Batūṭah, the chief fault of Bahrām was that he had, under a feeling of disgust, caused by the exhibition of the corpses of Ghiyas-al-Din Bahadur and Gashtāsp, ordered the interment of the corpses when they reached the province of Sindh.⁵⁵ As has been pointed out before, the two corpses could not have been exposed together, for the simple reason that the deaths of the two men occurred at different times. The Sultan took umbrage at this, and sent for Kishlū Khan who refused to go out of fear, and decided openly to raise the standard of revolt.