The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.553

v3.c20.553

In the meantime Daulat Khān had, on December 22, 1406, driven Bairam Khān from Sāmāna to Sirhind and had, after a short siege, compelled him to surrender. He befriended and patronised his defeated adversary and established himself at Sāmāna, but on the approach of Khizr Khān fled into the Doāb, while most of his partisans deserted to Khizr Khān. Besides Sāmāna Khizr Khān captured and annexed Sirhind, Sunām, and Hissar, so that beyond the walls of Delhi only the Doāb, Rohtak, and Sambhal remained subject to Mahmūd Shāh.