khair-ud-din

Updated: July 18, 2025

And they were rewarded by the assurance on the part of their tormentor that, however deficient they might be in princely virtues, their talents would preserve them from wanting bread. Khair-ud-din adds a strange account of Gholam Kadir going to sleep among them; and on waking, he is represented as reviling them for their lack of courage in not stabbing him while thus at their mercy!

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan