The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.7
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c21.7
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In the same year Khizr Khān himself took the field with the object of chastising Ahmad I of Gujarāt who, by pursuing his rebellious uncles to Nāgaur, which was nominally, at least, subject to Delhi, had violated the frontiers of the kingdom. Ahmad, on learning of his approach, fled into Gujarāt, and Khizr Khān retired, receiving on his homeward march tribute from Iliyās Khān, the Muslim governor of Jhāīn, the raja of Gwalior, and his own former protector, Shams Khān Auhadī of Bayāna, whom he might well have spared.