Since that time the dynasty has always continued to be
Muhammadan. The services of Sikandar Begam in the Mutiny are well
known. Malwa is the country lying between Bundelkhand, on the east,
and Rajputana, on the west, and includes Bhopal. Most of the states
in this region are now ruled by Hindoos, but the local dynasty which
ruled the kingdom of Malwa and Mandu from A.D. 1401 to 1531 was
Musalman. (See Thomas, _Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Dehli_, pp.
346-53.)
5. All near relatives succeed to a Muhammadan's estate, which is
divided, under complicated rules, into the necessary number of
shares. A son's share is double that of a daughter. As between
themselves all sons share equally.
6. Bernier's _Revolutions of the Mogul Empire_. [W. H. S.] The author
seems to have used either the London edition of 1671, entitled _The
History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul_, or
one of the reprints of that edition. The anecdote referred to is
called by Bernier 'an uncommonly good story'. Aurangzeb made a long
speech, ending by dismissing the unlucky pedagogue with the words:
'Go! withdraw to thy native village.
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