The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.191

v3.c20.191

Kashlī Khān shared his brother’s disgrace, and was deprived of his office and sent to the fief of Kara, all real power at court was usurped by the eunuch, and even the leading members of the Forty were fain to content themselves with minor offices. Sunqar, dismayed by his patron’s sudden fall, had fled to Turkistān, leaving his three fiefs, Bhātinda, Multān and Uch, in the hands of deputies whose surrender enabled the king to bestow them on Arsalān Khān Sanjar Chast, one of the Forty who was then hostile to Balban.