The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.23

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He was succeeded by his infant son Nizām Shāh, whose mother, with the assistance of Khvāja Jahān and Mahmūd Gāvān, managed the affairs of the kingdom, but the neighbouring rulers regarded the reign of a child as their opportunity, and the Hindus of Orissa, who were joined by those of Telingāna, invaded the kingdom and advanced to within twenty miles of Bīdar, where they were met by the royal army. Their advanced guard, driven in on to the main body of their army threw them into a panic, and they fled headlong, but the raja of southern Orissa was compelled to pay half a million of silver *tangas* in order to secure his retreat from molestation. The young king had hardly been borne back to the capital when news was received that Mahmūd I of Mālwa, instigated by the family of the murdered Nizām-ul-Mulk, had invaded the kingdom with 28,000 horse¹ and that the Hindus of Orissa and Telingāna had reassembled their forces and were menacing the capital from the east and north-east.