The Administration of the Sultanate of Dehli c9.41

c9.41

¹ 'Utbī uses the words *ḥājib-i-khāṣ*, *amīr ḥājib* and *ḥājib-i-kabīr* for the same man, Altūntāsh (pp. 342, 349, 406). The *khāṣ ḥājib* was certainly different from the *amīr ḥājib* in the sultanate of Dehlī; Baranī (p. 36) mentions a *khāṣ ḥājib* along with the *amīr ḥājib*. Both of these officials are mentioned by name. The term *amīr-u'l-ḥujjāb* is only a variation of *amīr ḥājib*; there is little ground to believe that they are different, vide Minhāj, p. 302 and Raverty's note in his translation of the *Ṭabaqāt-i-Nāṣirī*, p. 820. Under Sher Shāh the officer was sometimes styled *ḥājibdār*, Dā'ūdī, f. 87a. I.B. (ii, p. 53) states that the *amīr ḥājib*, *khāṣ ḥājib*, *sayyid-u'l-ḥujjāb* and *sharaf-u'l-ḥujjāb* received petitions from suppliants to the sultan's justice.