The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.51

v3.c21.51

It is now proper to examine the condition of the territories over which Khizr Khān had established his authority. The province of Multān had elected a ruler of its own, who never recognised, even formally, the royal authority; and the rest of the Punjab, as far south as Pānīpat and Hissar, was in the possession of Buhlūl, whose relative, Daryā Khān Lodī, held the district of Sambhal, the western limit of which he had pushed forward as far as the ford of Khvāja Khizr, on the Jumna near Delhi. Adjoining this petty state on the south, within the limits of the Doāb, was the state of Koīl, held by ‘Īsā Khān the Turk, and south of this state Hasan Khān, another Afghān, held Rāprī. The lower central Doāb, including Bhongāon, Patiālī, and Kampil, was held by the Rājput, Raja Partāb and to the west of the Jumna Dāūd Khān Auhadī was independent in Bayāna. All these rulers were partisans of Buhlūl. Gwalior was an independent Hindu state, and such tracts of Mewāt as did not acknowledge the rule of Dāūd Auhadī were held by native chieftains whose power extended almost to the gates of Delhi.