The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.425

v3.c20.425

Not all the foreigners so freely welcomed and so liberally remunerated proved to be faithful, and during the king’s absence in the south Hulāgū, a Mughul noble at Lahore, proclaimed his independence, appointed Gul Chandar, chief of the Khokars, his minister, and slew the governor, Tātār Khān the elder. Khvāja Jahān, the minister, assembled an army at Delhi and marched towards Lahore, taking with him, among others, Ibn Batūtah, who has left an account of the expedition which, though brief, is the most circumstantial which has come down to us. Hulāgū and Gal Chandar marched to meet Khvāja Jahān, and the two armies met and fought on the banks of one of the great rivers of the Punjab, probably the Sutlej. Hulāgū was defeated and fled, and large numbers of his army were drowned in the river. Khvāja Jahān advanced to Lahore, where he punished, after his master’s manner, the remnant of the rebels and their partisans. Many were flayed alive and many were slain in other ways, and three hundred of the widows of the victims were sent into imprisonment at Gwalior.