The treatment of the rebel, though not unduly severe, had spread in the minds of the uzbek nobles at the court and in the army the impression that the Emperor disliked men of that race, and three or four of them combined to give him a lesson.
"Rulers of India: Akbar"
George Bruce Malleson
He was roused from these diversions by the intelligence that the uzbek nobles whom he had pardoned, had taken advantage of his absence to break out again.
"Rulers of India: Akbar"
George Bruce Malleson
Then a path was cleared for a large embassy of Safavid Persian diplomats, each of whose palanquins was borne by four slaves in gleaming velvet liveries; next several desert uzbek khans in leather headdress rode into the square; and finally three Portuguese Jesuits in black cassocks trooped through the river gate and moved imperiously to the front of the crowd.
"The Moghul"
Thomas Hoover