The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.105

v3.c24.105

In 1562 Ghāzī Shāh sent his son Ahmad Khān in command of an expedition into Tibet. His advanced guard was defeated, and instead of pressing forward to its support he fled with the main body of his force—an act of cowardice which cost him a throne. Ghāzī Shāh set out in the following year to retrieve the disaster, but was obliged by his disease to return. He was a leper, who had already lost his fingers and on this expedition lost his sight. He learnt that disturbances were impending in the capital owing to the animosity of two factions, one of which supported the claim of his son, Ahmad, and the other that of his half-brother, Husain, to the throne. He returned at once to Srīnagar and, being no longer physically fit to reign, abdicated in favour of his half-brother, who in 1563–64, ascended the throne as Nāsir-ud-dīn Husain Shāh.