The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.548

v3.c20.548

In 1401, after his return to Delhi, Mallū perceived that the prestige of the fugitive Mahmūd Shāh would be useful to him, and persuaded him to return to the capital. The wanderer's experiences had been bitterly humiliating. Muzaffar Shāh of Gujarāt would not compromise his newborn independence by receiving him as king of Delhi, and was at no pains to conceal from him that his presence was distasteful until, after repeated slights, he retired to Mālwa, where Dilāvar Khān Ghūrī, mindful of his obligations to Mahmūd’s father, received him with princely generosity and assigned to him a residence at Dhār. In this retreat he was probably happier than in his gilded bonds at Delhi, but he could not refuse the invitation to return, and Mallū, after receiving him with every demonstration of respect interned him in one of the royal palaces and continued to govern the remnant of the kingdom with as little restraint as though Mahmūd had never returned from Mālwa.