The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c7.58

c7.58

Very soon Aibak had to take the field again. Hariraja, the brother of the late Chauhana king, collected a Rajput force and besieged Ranthambhor where, earlier in the year, Aibak had placed a garrison under Qiwamul Mulk². The Chauhanas also drove out the feudatory prince, Prithviraja’s son, and occupied Ajmer. On Aibak’s approach, they withdrew from both the places enabling the prince to be reinstated, but before Hariraja could be effectively persuaded, the Muslim general was called way by the news of another rising headed by the dispossessed ruler of Delhi. This was however easily crushed³. Hariraja