The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.491

v3.c20.491

Iliyās was now dead, and had been succeeded in Bengal by his son, Sikandar Shāh, and in 1359 Fīrūz, regardless of his treaty with the father, invaded with a large army the dominions of the son. The transparently frivolous pretext for the expedition was the vindication of the rights of Zafar Khān, a Persian who had married the daughter of Fakhr-ud-dīn Mubārak Shāh of Eastern Bengal and whose hopes of sitting on the throne of his father-in-law had been shattered by the conquest and annexation of Eastern Bengal by Iliyās. On the conquest of the country Zafar Khān had fled to the coast and embarked on a ship which carried him round Cape Comorin to Tattah, whence he had made his way to the court of Fīrūz, who appointed him, in 1357, deputy minister of the kingdom.