Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s2.20

c13.s2.20

Bahlūl’s success, against really heavy odds, was indeed brilliant; it also served to open his eyes to the danger of the existence of an independent kingdom like Jaunpur and to convince him of the necessity for its destruction. He had not been able to go personally to recruit Afghan levies because of Mahmūd’s invasion, but he was now more than ever convinced that he could not do without them. Consequently, he sent letters to the leaders of the different clans of the Afghans in Roh inviting them on liberal terms to come to Hindustan in large numbers and in course of time they swarmed into India to join the Sultan “like ants and locusts”.³⁹