The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c25.72

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Mahmūd II, who had ascended the throne of Mālwa in 1510, was the younger son of his father, Nāsir-ud-dīn, whom he had deposed, and the elder son, Sāhib Khān, entitled Muhammad Shāh, now sought refuge with Muzaffar and begged him to help him to expel his brother and gain his throne. He joined Muzaffar's camp at Baroda, on the way from Ahmadābād to Chāmpāner, and Muzaffar sent an agent into Mālwa to investigate the situation and report upon it. The agent, Qaisar Khān, returned with a report favourable to Sāhib Khān’s claim, and Sāhib Khān was impatient for his host to take the field. Muzaffar bade him have patience and promised to invade Mālwa at the end of the rainy season, but before the time came to redeem his promise Sāhib Khān had left Gujarāt in consequence of the gross misconduct of the Persian ambassador, who invited him to dinner and assaulted him. The prince’s servants attacked the ambassador’s suite and plundered his lodging, but the affair was noised abroad, and Sāhib Khān was so overcome with shame that he fled from Gujarāt and attempted to take refuge with ‘Ādil Khān III of Khāndesh, but while he was travelling to that court the governor of a frontier district of the kingdom of Mālwa attacked and defeated him, and he fled, with a following of 300 horse, to ‘Alā-ud-dīn ‘Imād Shāh of Berar, who would not offend the sultan of Mālwa by offering the fugitive armed assistance, but assigned to him lands for his maintenance.