The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.42

v3.c24.42

Mahmūd usurped his nephew’s throne in 1533, and was almost immediately involved in trouble by the rebellion of his brother-in-law, Makhdūm-i-‘Ālam, who held the fief of Hājīpur in Bihār and was leagued with the Afghān, Sher Khān Sūr of Sasseram, who had established himself in Bihār on the death of Muhammad Shāh, the Afghān who had been proclaimed by the refractory Lodī nobles king in Eastern Hindūstān. The two rebels defeated and slew Qutb Khān, governor of Monghyr who was sent against them by Mahmūd, and Sher Khān captured the elephants, material of war, and treasure of the defeated army, by means of which he was enabled immediately to increase his power and extend his influence.