The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c14.67

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Islām Shāh still persisted in attempts to destroy men who had served his father well and might have served him equally well, had they been trusted. He secretly employed an Afghān to stab Shujā‘at Khān of Mālwā on his way to court. The wounded noble, though visited by the king who professed great concern, as soon as his wound was healed, hastily left the court at Gwalior, without permission, and retired into Mālwā (1547). The king pursued him, and Shujā‘at Khān might have defeated him, but refused to attack his sovereign and withdrew into the rugged tract of Bānswārā, and Islām Shāh, having nominally dismissed him from the government of Mālwā, was obliged to turn towards the Punjab, where the Niyāzīs yet defied his authority. The rebels had again established themselves in Dungot, but a royal force defeated them and captured the mother and daughters of Haibat Khān, who for two years were exhibited once a week in a state of nudity in Islām Shāh’s hall of public audience and at the end of that time were put to death. The remnant of the Niyāzīs again took refuge with the Gakkhars whom Islām Shāh endeavoured for two years to subdue. Their chief successfully eluded him, but he took one of their principal leaders, flayed him alive and imprisoned his son in Gwalior.