History of the Khaljis, A.D. 1290–1320 c7.s4.1

c7.s4.1

The year which witnessed Chittor campaign,³⁷ also saw the despatch of an army to Warangal under the command of Malik Jūna, son of Ghāzi Malik and Malik Jhūjhū, governor of Kara and nephew of Nusrat Khan. Choicest troops were placed at the disposal of the commanders and they were ordered to take the eastern route via Bengal and Orissa.³⁸ The sultan as a prince had himself marched into the Deccan peninsula; but he had then taken the Ellichpur route which was shorter than the one via Bengal and Orissa. "For some obscure reason", writes col. Woolseley Haig, "this expendition marched on warangal, the capital of the Kākatiya rajas, by the then unexplored eastern route, through Bengal and Orissa."³⁹ This "obscure reason"