The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c26.83

v3.c26.83

When Humāyūn recovered his throne in 1555 Shujā‘at Khān¹ abstained from acknowledging him, and demeaned himself in all respects as an independent sovereign. Later in the same year he died, and was succeeded by his son Miyān Bāyazīd, known as Bāz Bahādur, whose pretensions were opposed by his father’s adopted son, Daulat Khān Ajyūra. Bāz Bahādur, having lulled his rival’s suspicions by assenting to an arrangement by which Mālwa was partitioned, seized him and put him to death, and assumed the royal title. He then expelled his own younger brother, Malik Mustafā, from Rāisen, and captured Kelwāra from the Miyāna Afghāns. His next exploit was an expedition against the famous Rānī Durgāvatī, queen of the Gonds of Garha-Katanga, who defeated him and drove him back into his own country, where he forgot his disgrace in the arms of his famous mistress, Rūpmati. He sank into the condition of a mere voluptuary, and when Mālwa was invaded, in 1561, by the officers of the emperor Akbar, he was driven from his kingdom, which became a province of the Mughal empire.