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JULY, 1918)
THE FARUQI DYNASTY OF KHANDESH
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X. Sahib Khân. 1. Tahir Khân.
i. Sikandar Khân.
i. Ibrahîm Khân. 2. Şidq Allah Khân. XI. Daughter married to Farid Khân.
1. Dilâvar Khân.
i. Taj Khân. In addition to these descendants there were :
(1) Muhammad Khân, son-in-law of Chånd Khan, whose name does not appear in • the genealogy, probably because he was dead, but who was evidently a member
of the royal house. (2) 'Ali Khân, son-in-law of Hasan Khân, only son of Muhammad Shah II.
From this genealogy we learn that the youthful Hasan Khân, son of Muhammad II., was not, as the Zafar-al-Walih would lead us to suppose, put to death by his uncle, Raja
Ali Khân, who supplanted him, but lived to marry and to have a family of at least two sons and a daughter.
The ultimate fate of all these princes is unknown, but according to the Akbarnáma they were presented to Akbar, who ordered that they should attend regularly at court in order that he might judge of their fitness for advancement.
Firishta, at the conclusion of his account of the rulers of Khandesh, makes one of his few original contributions to history. He tells us 28 that in A.1. 1023 (A.D. 1614) he visited the fort of Asirgarh in company with Khvâja Husain Turbati, who had held an important post in the service of Sultân Dâniyål. After describing the fortress, he writes :
They say that when Akbar Padshah had conquered the fortress and returned to Agra, 'he, in consequence of his attachment to the ways of the unbelievers, sent orders that the great Friday mosque in the fortress should be destroyed, and an idol temple erected on its site, but Sultan Daniyal, who was then in Burhanpûr, did not obey the order, and purposely neglected to carry it out, so that it was never given effect to.'
There is no reason to doubt this statement of Firishta. He was a good Muslim and was probably much scandalized by the report of the order which Akbar had issued, but he always writes with the highest respect of Akbar and his natural impulse would have been to conceal a fact so damaging to a great monarch whom all Muslims are anxious to claim as one of themselves, despite his well established unorthodoxy. The order is only one instance out of many, though perhaps the most marked, of Akbar's hostility to Islâm.
List of the Paragi Rulers of Khandesh 1. Raja Ahmad, or Malik Raja
.. 1382 2. Nasir Khân, Jahangir ..
April 29, 1399. 3. "Adil Khân I.
..Sept. 20, or Oct. 1, 1437. 4. Mubarak Khân I.
.. April 30, or May 4, 1441. 5. 'Ain Khân ("Aina), Idil Khân II., Jharkhandi Sultan
June 5, 1457. 6, Daoud Khân
Sep. 28, 1501. 7. Adil Khân III.
April 1, 150. 8. Muhammad Shah I. (Muhammad I. of Gujarat) ..
Aug. 25, 1520. 9. Mubarak Shah II.
May 4, 1537. 10. Muhammad Shah II. ..
Dec. 19, 1566. 11. Hasan Shah
1576-77. 12. Raja 'Ali Khân ( Adil Shâh IV.)..
1577-97. 13. Qadr Khan, Bahadur Shah ..
Feb. 17, 1597. [Asirgarh captured by Akbar.]
Jan. 26, 1601. 3 ii, 557.
