The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c7.145

c7.145

In describing Muizzuddin's campaigns in Central Asia, mention has been made of his plans to retrieve the defeat at Andhkhud. The defeat soon spread the rumour of his death which became the signal for a general rising among the turbulent tribes inhabiting the western provinces of his Indian empire. Even one of his lieutenants, named Aibakbak, deserting from the battlefield of Andhkhud came to Multan, killed the governor and established his independent authority there². News of this disloyalty soon spread and its occurrence was considered a sufficient proof of Muizzuddin's death. A chief of the Salt Range, named Raisal³ allying himself with the Khokar and other tribes⁴ living on the region through which the Lahore-Ghazni route passed, began plundering the districts between the Chinab and the Jhelum and even prepared to capture Lahore⁵. The roads being thus cut off by the rising, no revenue from the Punjab could be sent to Ghazni. The local