Twilight of the Sultanate c10.s1.38

c10.s1.38

Unable to secure any help from abroad, Jasrat Khokhar kept comparatively quiet for the next five years. Now and then he would raise his head, especially whenever he found the Sultan busy in some region far away from the Punjab, but this plan did not help him much. In A. D. 1427, taking advantage of the preoccupation of the royal armies in Bayana and Mewāt, he laid siege to Kalanaur. The Sultan deputed Zirak Khan and Islam Khan to march against him, but even before their arrival he was chased out of Kalanaur and later defeated at Kangra by Sikandar Tuhfā and his deputy Ghālib Khan. Jasrat was convinced that he could not fight against the royal armies all alone; so he waited to join hands with any other adventurer. The opportunity did not come soon, but when it came in 1431-2, he once again threw himself into the whirlpool of rebellion.