The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.23

v3.c26.23

There was still much disaffection among the nobles, who resented the usurpation of the throne by one of their number, and Mahmūd was obliged, immediately after his accession, to cope with a rebellion which assumed serious dimensions owing to the presence in the rebel ranks of Ahmad Khān, a surviving son of Hūshang. The rebellion was crushed, and the leading rebels, including Ahmad Khān, were pardoned and received fiefs, but they rebelled again, and Malik Mughīs was employed to crush them. Ahmad Khān, the most formidable of them, was poisoned by a musician at the instigation of Mughīs, and operations against the others were in progress when Ahmad I of Gujarāt invaded Mālwa with the object of placing Mas‘ūd Khān on his father's throne. The course of this campaign has been traced in the preceding chapter. Ahmad Shāh was compelled to retire to Gujarāt, and died, in 1442, before he could fulfil his promise to Mas‘ūd Khān.