The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c28.5

v3.c28.5

The king’s preference for his Hindu wife aroused the bitter jealousy of Āghā Zainab, who complained to her father, Nasīr Khān of Khāndesh, of the indignity to which she was subjected, and he invaded Berar to avenge his daughter’s wrongs, and succeeded in seducing from their allegiance many of the officers serving in that province, whose fidelity to their master was not proof against their veneration for the descendant of the Caliph ‘Umar.