A child, a dowager and a regent
Ferishta: on Jamsheed’s death the nobles of the court elevated his son, a child of seven, to the throne; and because he was unable to wield the sceptre his mother the Dowager-queen, in concert with the chiefs, recalled Seif Khan Ein-ool-Moolk from the exile the late king had sent him into. Seif Khan “assumed the office of regent and protector”.
The court split immediately. The first officer of the state, Jugdew Row, preferred to raise the late king’s younger brother instead, was proclaimed a rebel, and left to gather troops. The reign is the shape of the whole dynasty in miniature: a title held by someone who could not use it, and the real question settled elsewhere.
Deposed
His uncle Ibrahim, in exile at Vijayanagara, set up his pretensions to the throne with Ramraj’s backing and Jugdew Row’s support, and arrived at Golconda. Ferishta’s chapter summary records the outcome in five words: the young King is deposed.
He lies between his father and his grandfather in the royal tombs, popularly called Chhote Malik, the Small Master, against the founder’s Bade Malik — three generations in one line of graves.