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succeeded in bis conspiracy for the removal from office of our author’s 
patron, who had been raised to the title of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam in 647 
H., and he was banished the Court, our author, like others of the Ulugh 
Khan’s clients and supporters, was removed from the office of Chief Kazl ? 
and it was conferred upon one of the Rayhanl’s creatures, notwithstanding 
our author stood so high in the estimation of the weak and puppet Sultan. 
In 652 H., matters improved a little : a new Wazir succeeded ; and, while 
in the Kol district, whither our author appears to have accompanied the 
Sultan’s Court, the title of Sadr-i-Jahan # was conferred upon him. 
At the close of the following year the Rayhanl was ousted from office, 
the Ulugh Kban-i- A’zam again assumed the direction of affairs, and our 
author, who, for months past, had been unable, for fear of his life, to leave 
his dwelling, even to attend the Friday’s service in the Jami’ Masjid, was 
in Rabl’-ul-Awwal, 653 H., for the third time, made Chief Kazl of the 
Dihli kingdom, with jurisdiction over the capital as before. 
With the exception of his remark at page 715 of his History in 
winding up the events of the year 658 H., that if his life should be 
spared—he was then in his seventieth year—and aptitude should remain, 
whatever events might subsequently occur would be recorded, our author 
henceforward disappears from the scene, and we hear no more of him. 
At the end of his account of the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam farther on, he 
does not renew that promise, nor does he do so when finally closing his 
History. The munificent rewards he received on presenting copies of his 
work to the Sultan and to the latter’s father-in-law, the Ulugh Khan-i- 
A’zam, are mentioned at page 1294. He refers to his family casually, 
now and then, in his work, but, with a single exception, enters into no 
particulars whatever. At page 820 he says, with reference to the Malik- 
ul-Hujjab [Head of the Chamberlains], ’Ala-ud-Dln, the Zinjani, that he 
is “his son, and the light of his eyes but he could not have been his 
son from the fact of his being styled “ the Zinjani,” that is to say, a native 
of Zinjan in Khurasan. He may have been his son-in-law, or an adopted 
son. 
When the emissaries from Khurasan were received by the Sultan, 
Nasir-ud-Dln Mahmud Shah, as related at page 857, our author composed 
a poem befitting the occasion, and this, he says, was read before the throne 
by one of his sons. He also, in one place, refers to a brother. 
Between the time when our author closes his History in 658 H., and 
the Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam succeeded to the throne of Dihli under the title 
of Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Dln, in 664 H.—the date generally accepted, although 
Fasih-1 says it was in 662 H.—is a period of about six years ; and, as no 
other writer that we know of has recorded the events of that period, it is a 
* See “Translation,” page G98, and note 3 . 
