The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.38
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.38
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The officers elected Shāham Khān Jalāīr as their leader, but could not agree among themselves, and Dāūd, profiting by their dissensions and by the broken spirit of their troops, took the field. He captured Bhadrakh and Jaleswar, and Shāham Khān, thoroughly disheartened, retired into Bihār, leaving the whole of Bengal in the hands of the Afghāns.