The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c22.40

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Sikandar soon found the opportunity which he sought. Khān Jahān Qarmalī, governor of Bayāna, died, and though his two sons were for a short time permitted to manage the affairs of their father’s fief their experience was not equal to the task, and they were summoned to Sambhal, where less important fiefs were bestowed upon them. Khavāss Khān, governor of Delhi, was appointed to Bayāna, and his son Ismā‘īl Khān succeeded him in the capital. His hands were strengthened in his new post by the appointment of Safdar Khān as governor of Āgra, then a dependency of Bayāna, and ‘Ālam Khān, governor of Mewāt, and Khān Khānān Lohānī, governor of Rāprī, were ordered to cooperate with him against Bināyik Deo, raja of Dholpur. A combined attack was made on Dholpur, but the royal officers were repulsed with loss and Sikandar marched, on March 15, 1502, from Sambhal towards Dholpur. On his approach Bināyik Deo fled to Gwalior, leaving his officers to defend Dholpur, but they followed their master’s example and Sikandar occupied the fortress and sacked the town. The conquerors committed a senseless act of revenge by destroying the groves of trees which extended for a distance of fourteen miles round it.