The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1607

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c5.1607

| A.D. | |
| 1440 | V. Sam. 1497, 1510, inscriptions from Suhanīya, Gwaliar. Dungarendradeva, Tomara of Gwaliar.—JBA. xxxi, 404, 422 ff. CASR. ii, 400. JBA. viii, 693 ff. |
| 1441 | H. 845. Buhlūl Lūdī appointed to Dībālpūr and Lahor by Muḥammad Shāh IV and sent against Jasrat, the Gakkhar. The latter makes peace with Buhlūl, who, aspiring to the throne, marches against Delhī, which he besieges though unsuccessfully.—EI. iv, 85–6. |
| | H. 845. Maḥmūd Khān of Mālava, intending to march against Chitor, turns aside and proceeds to Kalpi against Nāṣir Khān, who had assumed independence. Nāṣir Khān submits, and Maḥmūd continuing his march, reduces a strong fort belonging to Kumbhakarṇa of Mevāḍ, after which he proceeds to Chitor.—BF. iv, 207 ff. |
| | 30th April, H. 844, 8th Zī’l-ḥijjah. Murder of Mīrān ‘Ādil Khān I, of Khandesh, at Burhānpūr. His son Mīrān Mubārak Khān I succeeds him: till A.D. 1457.—BF. iv, 296. |
| 1442 | 12th August, H. 846, 4th Rabī‘ II. Aḥmad Shāh I of Gujarāt dies, and is succeeded by his son Muḥammad Karīm Shāh: till A.D. 1451.—BG. 125. BMC., *Muhammadan States*, 132, Int. lviii, lxi. |
| | Ś. 1364. Death of Raghunāthatīrtha, twelfth High Priest of the Mādhva sect.—BR. 1882–3, 204. |
| 1443 | H. 847. Muḥammad Shāh IV of Delhī dies, and is succeeded by his son ‘Alāu-d-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ‘Ālim Shāh: till A.D. 1451.—BMC., *Sultāns of Delhī*, 4, 96. PK. 336. EHI. iv, 86. |
| | 26th April, H. 846, 25th Zī’l-ḥijjah. Kumbhakarṇa of Mevāḍ attacks Maḥmūd Shāh of Mālava and, according to Firishtah, is defeated with great loss. According to Thomas, Kumbha won a great victory over the combined armies of Mālava and Gujarāt in A.D. 1440, in honour of which he erected his pillar of victory at Chitor.—BF. iv, 210. PK. 354. |
| | H. 847. Shaikh Yūsuf establishes himself as king in Multān.—BOD. 422–3. |
| | H. 847. Devarāya II of Vijayanagara invades the Bahmanī kingdom. He besieges Mūdkul and plunders the country as far as Sagur and Bījāpūr. ‘Alāu-d-Dīn Aḥmad Shāh, Bahmanī, marches against him. Several engagements take place and Devarāya, at first successful, is eventually forced to conclude a treaty with the |