Twilight of the Sultanate c12.s1.10

c12.s1.10

Since Sarwarul Mulk had concentrated all power in his hands, Sultan Muhammad could not but be a showboy in his hands, but his black deeds had shocked every one, and the embers of hatred against the traitors kept on smouldering. When Rānū arrived at Bayana to take possession, he was opposed and killed by its governor Yūsuf Khan Auhadī, who cut off Rānū's head and hung it up at the gate of the fort. This signal victory of an adherent of Mubārak Shāh together with the excesses of Sarwarul Mulk at Delhi in murdering many Amīrs whom he had earlier imprisoned, encouraged the loyal nobles⁸ to unfurl the standard of revolt. Malik· Allahadād Kālā Lodī, governor of Sambhal and Ahar;⁹ Miyān Chaman, Amīr of Badaon and grandson of the late Khan-i-Jahān; Amīr 'Alī Gujarati and Amīr Gangū¹⁰ Turkbachchā rose in rebellion.