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His position seems to have been that of Imperial High 
Commissioner in Bengal to keep a wateprul eye on behalf of 
the Dehli Sultan over the proc ceedings. of the now feudatory 
Balbani Kings. The second is that Nasiruddin died apparently 
in the year following his confirmation in the sovereignty of 
Lakhnauti and that in his place Malik Bedar (or Pindar; Khan 
Khilji was made Governor of Lakhnauti and received the title 
of Qadar Khan. 
We also gather from another late historian, Badaoni 
(c.1595 A.D.), that at some unspecified but early date in 
Muhammad ibn Tughlaq’s reign Satganw was placed under a 
separate Governor called Malik ‘Izzuddin Yahya ‘Azamu-l- 
Mulk. This agrees with Barani’s statement that Satganw 
(with Sunarganw) had been kept directly under the power of 
Ghiyaguddin Tughlaq: but as Badaoni mentions ‘Izzuddin 
after Pindar Khilji, the formation of Satganw ito a separate 
eee might have been effected after the death of 
Nasiruddin 
No coins in the joint names of Ghiyaguddin Bahadur and 
Nasiruddin Lbrahim are known but Firishtah’s date of 726 for 
the latter’s death is confirmed by coins struck in the name 
of Muhammad himself at Shahr Lakhnauti in 727 A.H.! The 
coin cabinet of the British Museum contains, however, 
hitherto unrecorded and posibly unique coin pee in the joint 
names of Muhammad and Nasireddin. nm the annexed cut 
it will be seen that the inscriptions run as follows = 

Coll. Bleazby No. 2085. &. Wt. 166:9 grs. - S. 1:1 in. 
other Gov that town the headquarters for his successful attack on Muhammad's 
ioe bhateaat ar Khan, at Lakhnauti 
Pi. x te. 10. These one Bs well as ee of a ae Began 
733 A, H. Wile Table on next page but one) differ r edema 
and Sunarganw (Nos. 2 (a) and 3) in ee anni Si a3 ax , in the 
