The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.11

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Raja Ahmad of Khāndesh had died on April 29, 1399, leaving two sons, Nasīr and Hasan, to inherit his dominions. Nasīr had received the eastern and Hasan the western districts, and the former had founded, in 1400, the city of Burhānpur, and had captured from a Hindu chieftain the strong fortress of Asīr, while the latter had established himself at Thālner. Such a division of the territories of the small state held no promise of permanence, and in 1417 the elder brother, Nasīr, having obtained assistance from Hūshang of Mālwa, who had married his sister, captured Thālner and imprisoned Hasan before a reply could be received to the latter’s appeal for aid to Ahmad of Gujarāt. Nasīr, with a view to forestalling Ahmad’s intervention and to repairing the discomfiture of his father, who had made an unsuccessful attempt to annex the south-eastern districts of the kingdom of Gujarāt, attacked Nandurbār. A relieving force sent by Ahmad compelled Nasīr to retreat to Asīr, and besieged him in that fortress. Peace was made on Nasīr’s swearing fealty to Ahmad, and promising to abstain in future from aggression, and Ahmad in return recognised Nasīr’s title of Khān. Nasīr’s brother Hasan retired to Gujarāt, where he and his descendants for generations found a home and intermarried with the royal house.