The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c20.80

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In 1048 Maudūd, in order to allay the strife between the nobles of the Punjab, appointed his two eldest sons, Mahmūd and Mansūr, to the government of Lahore and Peshāwar, and at the same time sent Bu ‘Alī Hasan, *Kotwāl*¹ of Ghaznī, to India to curb the aggression of the Hindus, in which task he succeeded well and captured a fortress which cannot now be identified with any certainty, but he fell a victim to one of the intrigues so common in oriental courts, and was rewarded, on his return to Ghaznī, by being cast into prison, where his enemies anticipated the probability of his restoration to power by murdering him.