Proclaimed, defended, carried away
“The Queen Chand having succeeded in obtaining the person of Bahadur Nizam Shah from his imprisonment in Chawund, he was publickly proclaimed King of Ahmudnuggur, when she appointed her friend and adviser, Mahomed Khan, to the office of peshwa”. Ferishta’s chapter-head ends the reign: “Queen Chand calls a council of war — she recommends the surrender of the fort — her opinion overruled — she is seized by the garrison, and murdered. — Ahmudnuggur taken by storm, and the garrison put to the sword. — Bahadur Nizam Shah conveyed prisoner to the fort of Gualiar.”
The archive’s essay on the Deccan’s women regents sets his minority beside Ibrahim II’s at Bijapur and Abdullah’s at Golconda — three sultanates, one generation, three child kings, each governed by a woman of the house.