The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.58

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Many of the nobles in the provinces, including Sher Khān, the powerful governor of Chanderī, and Muqbil Khān, governor of Mandasor, declined to believe that the new king had ascended the throne with his father’s consent, and took up arms against him. After one unsuccessful attempt to crush this rebellion, and another attempt, equally unsuccessful, to conciliate the rebels, he took the field against them, and assembled his army at Na‘lcha, leaving his son Shihāb-ud-dīn in charge of the capital. At Dhār he received news of the death of his father, on February 28, 1501, from poison, administered, as it was generally believed, by his orders. He encountered the rebels at Sārangpur and utterly defeated them. Sher Khān fled to Chanderī, and thence to Erij and Bhānder¹, and Nāsir-ud-dīn occupied Chanderī, but discovered that a faction in the town had invited Sher Khān to return and promised him their active support. He sent a force against the rebel, who was advancing on Chanderī and who was defeated and so severely wounded that he died in the course of his retreat. The king marched as far as the spot where the body had been buried, exhumed it, and carried it back to Chanderī, where it was exposed on a gallows. He then appointed Bihjat Khān governor of Chanderī and returned to Māndū, when by deep drinking he aggravated the natural ferocity of his disposition and by his violent and irascible temper alienated his nobles.