The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c13.22

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Impressed by the fuller news which Tārdī Beg was able to give him Humāyūn was convinced of the necessity for action to save the centre of his precarious rule. He hastily left Māndū and made for Āgra through Chitor territory where he met the disorganised force of ‘Askarī. It was not a suitable time for recriminations and punishment of disaffection. A sterner character might have swept aside a father’s dying injunctions, but Humāyūn knew that during his idle sojourn in Mālwā rebellion had broken out in the eastern provinces. A fratricidal struggle would end all his hopes of restoring peace. He therefore affected forgiveness and even rewarded the plotters, before he marched with them to Āgra. Very soon after his departure from Mālwā that province was seized by Mallū Khān who had once been in the service of the kings of Mālwā, and later governor after the annexation by Gujarāt.¹ Mughul domination in western India thus ceased entirely.