The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.409

v3.c20.409

The following year, 1331–32, passed uneventfully at Daulatābād, but the king’s tyranny was bearing its fruit in the Doāb, and in 1333 he returned to Delhi and led a punitive expedition into that region, which he treated in all respects as a hostile country. Baran, now Bulandshahr, was first attacked, and the whole district was plundered and laid waste. The inhabitants were slaughtered like sheep, and rows of Hindu heads decked the battlements of the city of Baran. Those who escaped fled into the jungles, where they were hunted like wild beasts. Continuing his march in a southeasterly direction the king plundered and devastated, in like manner, the districts of Kanauj and Dalmau¹, where he was still engaged when Ibn Batūtah arrived at Delhi late in 1333 or early in 1334.