The people appealed in vain, it is said, to Mr. Fraser, the Governor-
General's representative, who was soon after assassinated; and a good
many attribute the death of both to this outrage upon the remains of
the dead foster-brother of Akbar. Those of Ala-ud-din were, no doubt,
older and less sensitive. Tombs equally magnificent cover the remains
of the other three foster-brothers of Akbar, but I did not enter
them.[38]
Notes:
1. The Sultan, called by the author 'the Emperor Tughlak the First',
as being the first of the Tughlak dynasty, was by birth a Karauniah
Turk, named Ghazi Beg Tughlak. He assumed the style of Ghiyas-ud-din
Tughlak Shah when he seized the throne in A.D. 1320, and he reigned
till A.D. 1325.
2. This gigantic fortress is close to the village of Badarpur, about
four miles due east of the Kutb Minar, and ten or twelve miles south
of the modern city. The building of it occupied more than three
years, but the whole undertaking 'proved eminently futile, as his son
removed his Court to the old city within forty days after his
accession.' (Thomas, _Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi_, 1871,
p.
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