The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.112

v3.c25.112

Muhammad Shāh of Khāndesh, who was sent to establish Bahādur’s authority over the outlying districts of Mālwa, captured Gāgraun¹ and Kanōr², both of which had been treacherously surrendered by Medenī Rāi, who had held them of the king of Mālwa, to the Rānā of Mewār, and Bahādur, having appointed as governor of Rāisen Sultān ‘Ālam, chief of Kālpī, who had fled from his principality before Bābur, overran part of Gondwāna, captured many elephants, appointed Alp Khān governor of that region, and, turning westward, captured Islāmābād and Hoshangābād, and met Muhammad Shāh, of Khāndesh at Sārangpur, where the Rānā’s governor of Gāgraun was presented to him. Then returning to Māndū he sent ‘Imād-ul-Mulk Malikjī and Ikhtiyār Khān to take Mandasor, formerly spared at the intercession of Sangrama Singh, whose successor’s writ no longer ran either in Mālwa or in Gujarāt. The town and fortress were taken, the Rānā’s officer fled, and Bahādur dismissed Muhammad Shāh to Khāndesh, visited Diū, and on his return thence spent the rainy season at Chāmpāner considering the punishment of the Rānā. The occasion was opportune, for Vikramāditya was the Commodus of Rājputāna, and disgusted his haughty nobles by his preference for the society of gladiators, wrestlers, and professional swashbucklers.