The Nāṣirī Generations 244.8.3

244.8.3

and the month of Safar arrived, Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam resolved upon making a raid upon the Koh-payah [hill tracts of Mewat] round about the capital, because, in this Koh-payah, there was a community of obdurate rebels, who, unceasingly, committed highway robbery and plundered the property of Musalmans, and the ejection of the subject peasantry, and destruction of the villages in the districts of Harianah, the Siwalikh, and Bhianah, necessarily followed their outbreaks. Three years previous to this period, they had likewise carried off herds of camels, the property of the vassals and loyal followers of Ulugh Khan-i-A'zam's household—be victory ever theirs!—from the outskirts of the Hansi territory. The leader of the rebels was a person, Malka by name, an obdurate Hindu gabr [infidel], like a gigantic demon and a serpent-hued [demon]. They had carried off herds of camels and camel-men, and had, in the meantime, dispersed them among the Hindus throughout the Koh-payah [hill tracts], as far as the vicinity of Rantabhur, and the time that these camel-men and camels were carried off was a time when an expedition was pending, and the camp-followers of the force, and the warriors of the retinue of Ulugh Khan-i-A’zam, were in urgent need of them for the purpose of carrying the equipage of the troops.