Twilight of the Sultanate c11.s2.15

c11.s2.15

Two months later he sent an expedition to Mewat, where Muhammad Auhadī had taken refuge. During the last war Qadr Khan (Qaddū) had been found to be in secret correspondence with Ibrāhīm Sharqī. Consequently, the Sultan ordered his death. Qadr Khan’s execution enraged his brother Jalāl Khan (Jallū) and other Mewatī leaders, who rose in revolt. Sarwarul Mulk marched to suppress them, and laid siege to the fort of Indūr.⁴⁵ The Mewatīs could not hold on for long and purchased their peace by giving “revenue; tribute and hostages”.⁴⁶ By the end of A.D. 1428 Mahmūd Hasan, who had been deputed to Bayana, had crushed whatever recalcitrant elements had remained there. As a reward he was confirmed in his fief of Hisār Fīrōzā.⁴⁷