A child king and a plot in girl’s clothes
“Boorhan Nizam Shah ascended the throne of his father at Ahmudnuggur, in the seventh year of his age.” The minister Mukammal Khan “was appointed Vakeel or Protector”, and within three years the other nobles had bribed the queen-mother’s nurse to carry off the infant prince Raja-ju, “dressed … in girl’s clothes” in her palanquin, “whom they determined to raise to the throne; so that by deposing Boorhan Nizam Shah they might free themselves from the despotic sway of the minister and his son.” It failed.
Forty-seven years
“Boorhan Nizam Shah died at the age of fifty-four, after a reign of forty-seven years. He left two sons, Hoossein and Abdool Kadur, by his favourite wife Ameena, and two others, Shah Ally and Meeran Mahomed Bakur, by Beeby Muryum, the daughter of Yoosoof Adil Shah.” His body “was embalmed, and sent to Kurbela”.
Ferishta gives the length of the reign and not the year of its end; the archive dates Husain’s accession 1553 from it and marks that date contested.