The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1584

c5.1584

Surrender of Lahor to Maliku-s-Sharq Sikandar Tuḥfah in Shauwāl (May). The latter had shortly before received the fiefs 1433 of Dībālpūr and Jālandhara from the Sultān with the title of Shamsu-l-Mulk, but these were subsequently taken from him and given to ‘Imādu-l-Mulk. The Sultān transfers the office of Dīwān-i-Ashraf from Sarwaru-l-Mulk to Kamālu-l-Mulk, thereby rousing the hostility of the former. 17th Rabī‘ I, 1st November, H. 837. Mubārak Shāh founds the city of Mubārakābād or Mubārakpūr. News reaching him of the fall of Tabarhindah and death of Pūlād, he sets out to restore order in that district.—EHI. iv, 75-9. BF. i, 527 ff. PK. 332. March, H. 836, Rajab. Aḥmad I of Gujarāt sets out on a campaign against Mevād, Nāgaur, and Kolīwārah. Reaching Sidhpūr he lays waste towns and villages in all directions and proceeds to Dūngarpūr, the Rāja of which (Ganeśa) submits. Subsequently Aḥmad invades the Rāthor country and receives the submission of the Rāthor chiefs of Bīndī and Nowlāt (Firiṣhtah).—BG. 120-1. H. 836 or 837. Mirkḥond Mīr Kḥāwand or Muḥammad ibn Kḥāwand Shāh ibn Maḥmūd, the Persian historian, born. Author of the Rauzatu-s-Ṣafā. Died 2nd Zī’l-qa‘dah, H. 903 = 22nd June, 1498.—BOD. 216. EHI. iv, 127.