The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c27.109

v3.c27.109

The exhaustion of the kingdom after the disastrous war with Gujarāt encouraged Hūshang Shāh to retrieve his late discomfiture by capturing Kherla and putting Narsingh to death. Ahmad was unprepared for war, but could not ignore so gross an insult, and marched northward to exact reparation, but Nasīr Khān intervened, and composed the quarrel on terms disgraceful to Ahmad. Kherla was acknowledged to be a fief of Mālwa and Hūshang made, in the treaty, the insolent concession that the rest of Berar should remain a province of the Deccan.