The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.273

v3.c20.273

After establishing a Muslim government in Gujarāt Ulugh Khān and Nusrat Khān set out for Delhi, and at Jālor distributed the plunder taken in the expedition. The allotment of the greater part of it caused grave discontent, and the New Muslims mutinied and slew Nusrat Khān's brother and a nephew of 'Alā-ud-dīn. The great drums were sounded, the troops responded to the call to arms, and the mutineers, outnumbered, took to flight and were pursued with great slaughter. Those who escaped took refuge with various Hindu chieftains, principally with Hamīr Deo, raja of Ranthambhor, but were unable to escape vicarious punishment, for the fierce tyrant of Delhi put their wives and families to death in circumstances of revolting brutality, and Nusrat Khān avenged his brother's death by delivering the wives of the murderers to the embraces of the scavengers of Delhi, an unspeakable degradation.