Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s2.t1.94

c5.s2.t1.94

¹ Compare B., 428, for Balban’s appointing prince Muhammad heir to the throne and permitting him the use of *Chatr* and *Durbash*. Bughra Khan succeeds to this privilege of his elder brother on the death of the latter. But when his own son Kaiqubad succeeds to the throne of Delhi, the father has to make a petition for the retention of the privilege of using the ‘white parasol’ which, as he admitted, belonged to his son in his capacity as the Sultan of Delhi. Kaiqubad acceded to the request of Bughra Khan which gave him peculiar satisfaction (*vide* Q.S., 146; B. 92). Compare K.F., 33, for the permission given to the Raja of Chitor to retain the use of the ‘blue parasol’ as a vassal of ‘Ala-ud-din Khalji. Compare also (*ibid.*) the gift of many royal symbols—parasol, *durbash*, elephants, and *‘alams* or royal standards to Khizr Khan, the eldest son of ‘Ala-ud-din Khalji, by his father on his appointment as the Viceroy of the Sultan of Delhi in Rajputana. But when the same Prince was in disgrace at a later date through the machinations of Malik Kafur, these distinctions were snatched away from him without ceremony (*vide* D.R., 240).