The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c22.6

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Mahmūd, on the defeat of his army in the field, raised the siege and returned to Jaunpur. His expedition convinced Buhlūl that the settlement of the trivial disorders in the Punjab, where Lodī supremacy was assured, might well be postponed until the turbulent fief-holders of the Doāb and the petty princes of Mewāt, who had long been independent, were once more brought into subjection to the kingdom of Delhi and the power of the king of Jaunpur which, during the reigns of Mubārak, Muhammad, and ‘Ālam Shāh, had always equalled and frequently over-shadowed that of the king of Delhi, had been broken. Buhlūl, whose reputation had been greatly enhanced by his victory, marched to Mewāt, where he received, without a battle, the submission of Ahmad Khān, who surrendered seven *parganas* to him, agreed to holding the remainder of his territory as a fief of Delhi, and placed his uncle, Mubārak Khān, at Buhlūl's court, nominally as his agent, but in fact as a hostage.