Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s4.t2.18

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usually confined to the nobles who had the rank of *Khan*. For instance, when Bakhtyar Khalji was nominated to Bengal, Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak invested him with a canopy of state, royal ensigns and kettle-drums, gave him royal stallions and a waist-band and his own robes of state (*vide* T.M., 55). Similarly on the birth of his son, Sultan Mubarak Shah Khalji invested some of his Khans with royal parasols (*Chatrs*) and gave his own parasol Khusrau Khan (*vide* K.K., 771). The Chatr of a noble of Firuz Tughluq named Tatar Khan was inscribed with a golden peacock, the use of which, like that of the *huma*, was a royal prerogative (*vide* B., 578; A., 391). Sher Khan, after appointing Haibat Khan to the charge of Multan gave him the title of *A’zam-i-Humayun* and a red canopy of state (*vide* T.S.S., 61).