The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.175

v3.c25.175

Meanwhile Muhammad Ulugh Khān and Marjān Jhūjhār Khān, who had been awaiting help from I‘timād Khān or from Sher Khān Fūlādī, were disappointed and, joining Ikhtiyār-ul-Mulk, marched with him to Ahmadābād to make their peace with Chingīz Khān. A redistribution of fiefs was agreed upon, and Chingīz Khān promised to treat the other nobles as his equals in all respects, but neither party trusted the other, and Ulugh Khān was warned that Chingīz Khān was meditating his assassination. He provided for his safety by inducing Jhūjhār Khān to decapitate Chingīz Khān with his sword¹ as the three were riding together to the polo ground, and he and his partisans took possession of the citadel while their troops plundered those of Chingīz Khān, and Rustam Khān rode off, with his brother-in-law’s corpse, to Broach.