The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.170

v3.c20.170

At the beginning of Mas‘ūd’s reign the governor of Budaun conducted a successful campaign against the Rājputs of Katehr, the later Rohilkhand, but was shortly afterwards poisoned while revolving schemes of wider conquest, and Sanjar, entitled Gurait Khān, having ensured the obedience of the native landholders of Oudh, invaded Bihār, where the Hindus had taken advantage of the dissensions among their conquerors to re-establish their dominion. He plundered the province, but was slain before the walls of its capital. While these events were occurring in the eastern provinces the Qarlugh Turks again attacked Multān and were repulsed, but in this achievement the kingdom had no part, for Ayāz, after turning aside, unaided, the Mughul, had renounced his allegiance to Delhi and his son, Abu Bakr, now ruled Multān as an independent sovereign. The kingdom had thus lost Bengal and Bihār on the east and on the west and north-west Multān, Sind, and the upper Punjab, wasted by Mughuls and occupied by the Khokars.