The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c16.89

v4.c16.89

The rebel forces of both provinces then concentrated near Teliyāgarhī and caused the *khutba* to be recited in the name of Muhammad Hakīm, but retired when Todar Mal advanced against them. He followed them but his own troops were so disaffected that he was obliged to take refuge in Monghyr, where the rebels besieged him. Akbar sent Khān A‘zam, who had been pardoned, with an army into Bengal, and he compelled the rebels to raise the siege. Some retired into lower Bengal but a force under Ma‘sūm Khān Kābulī returned to Bihār, occupied the town of Bihār, and besieged Patna. Ma‘sūm Khān Farankhudī attacked them and compelled them to retire to Gayā, and at the end of September they were dispersed by Todar Mal. Other minor operations cleared Bihār of rebels for the time, but disaffection was everywhere rife, and Ma‘sūm Khān Farankhudī, repenting of his activity in Akbar’s cause, retired to Jaunpur and there began to assemble a force with which to support that of Muhammad Hakīm. He was joined by Niyābat Khān, an officer who had rebelled in the Allahābād district but had been defeated and driven into Oudh.