The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.190
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.190
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The rancour of the vindictive eunuch was not yet sated, and he persuaded the king to transfer the fallen minister from Hānsī to Nāgaur, and so confidently anticipated resistance that he sent the royal army, in June, 1253, to enforce obedience, but again he was disappointed, for Balban retired without a murmur to his new fief. Hānsī was bestowed nominally upon an infant son of the king by a wife other than the daughter of Balban, but was occupied by a partisan of Raihān as the child’s deputy.