The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.s2.148.3

v3.c29.s2.148.3

Of Hīr Sāh it is recorded that he paid no tribute to any foreign king, from which statement it may be inferred that his predecessors had paid tribute, probably to the Bahmanī kings of the Deccan, but the relations between that kingdom and the southern Gond state are most obscure. The kings of Chānda were not, like those of Kherla, drawn into the disputes between the kings of the Deccan and their northern neighbours, and seem wisely to have avoided such entanglements; but when Fīrūz Shāh, the eighth king of the Bahmanī dynasty, marched northwards, in 1399 or 1400, to punish Narsingh of Kherla for having invaded Berar, the fortress of Māhūr was held by a 'misbeliever,' probably a Gond from Chānda who had joined Narsingh; but he was permitted to retain the command of the fortress as governor on behalf of Fīrūz, on making submission¹. The same governor was again in rebellion in 1424, and in the following year Ahmad Shāh, the successor of Fīrūz, dealt with him in the manner already described². Continuing his march northwards Ahmad found the fortress of Kalam in the hands of a Gond chief, whom he slew or expelled, and then led a raid into Gondwāna. He probably crossed the Wardha on this occasion, and, if so, this is the only recorded instance of the invasion of the Chānda kingdom by a Muslim king.