Twilight of the Sultanate c10.s2.1

c10.s2.1

During the few years of respite on the score of Jasrat Khokhar in the Punjab, Mubārak Shāh undertook campaigns in the central and eastern regions against independent chiefs and rulers. In the winter of 1429, while he was marching against Bayana, Gwalior, Hatkanth and Rapri on usual revenue-collecting expeditions, Saiyyad Sālim, the governor of Bhatinda, was taken ill and breathed his last.³⁴ He had served the Sultanate with fidelity for the last thirty years, and had held several parganās in the Doab, the Khittā of Sirsutī, the *iqt'ā* of Amrohā and the fort of Tabarhinda (Bhatindā).³⁵ Though a loyal noble, Saiyyad Sālim was a man both greedy and stingy by nature. He had amassed a large amount of wealth and had treasured it in the fort of Bhatindā. At the time of his death his sons were in the royal camp, but his slave Faulād Turkbachchā,³⁶ who was in charge of Bhatindā, raised an insurrection in July, 1430 (Shawwāl, 833 H)³⁷ and confiscated the treasure.