The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.324

v3.c20.324

Malik Nāib was so resentful of Khizr Khān's advancement and so weary of his quarrels with the prince's mother that he begged that he might be sent back to the Deccan, where the presence of an officer of high rank happened to be required. Pratāparudradeva of Warangal had complained of the great distance to which he was obliged to send the tribute demanded of him, and had requested that an officer empowered to receive it might be posted at a reasonable distance from Warangal; and Shankar of Deogīr had been guilty of some acts of defiance of the royal authority. He was accordingly dispatched, in 1313, to Deogīr, where he put Shankar to death and assumed the government of the state. In order to establish his authority in its more rémote districts he led an expedition southwards, captured Gulbarga, and annexed the tract between the Krishna and the Tungabhadra, after taking its chief fortresses, Rāichūr and Mudgal. After overrunning some of the southern districts of Telingāna he marched westwards, took the seaports of Dābhol and Chaul, and then invaded for the second time the dominions of Vīra Ballāla III. Thence he returned to Deogīr and dispatched to Delhi the spoils and tribute which he had collected.