The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.67

v3.c26.67

Mahmūd was now established at Māndū, and soon had occasion to repent of having summoned the Purbiya Rājputs to his aid. Mednī Rāi assumed the office of minister, dismissed from their posts all the old nobles of the kingdom, in whose places he appointed men of his own faith and race, and induced the king to sanction the assassination of Afzal Khān and Iqbāl Khān, whom he accused of entering into correspondence with Muhammad. The Muslim nobles viewed with mingled disgust and apprehension the supremacy of the idolators in the state, and Sikandar Khān, governor of Satwās and one of the most important of the great fief-holders, raised the standard of revolt. Bihjat Khān of Chanderī excused himself from obeying his sovereign’s command to march against the rebel, and Mansūr Khān of Bhīlsa, who obeyed the royal summons, was so ill supported that he abandoned the attempt to crush the rebellion, and joined Bihjat Khān at Chanderī. Mednī Rāi reduced Sikandar Khān to obedience, and by confirming him in his fiefs induced him to renew his allegiance to Mahmūd.