The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.61
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.61
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These measures seriously alarmed those who remained, and revived tribal jealousies, especially in the Niyāzī tribe. Sa‘īd Khān fled to his brother, Haibat Khān Niyāzī, governor of Lahore, and persuaded him to head a revolt against the tyrant. Qutb Khān, who had been implicated in the attempt to raise ‘Ādil Khān to the throne, joined them, and Islām Shāh demanded his surrender. So little were the tribal chiefs capable of a common course that Haibat Khān, actuated probably by some private grudge, surrendered him, and he was imprisoned in Gwalior with fourteen of the other old nobles.