Twilight of the Sultanate c13.s3.54

c13.s3.54

Having made full preparations for the conquest of Jaunpur, Sultan Bahlūl marched against it. Husain could not put up any effective resistance, and fled to Bahraich. The Jaunpur country, which for nearly a century had been lost to Delhi, was conquered by Bahlūl and reincorporated in the Sultanate.¹⁰⁹ Mubārak Khan Nūhānī was appointed as its governor. Qutb Khan Lodī, Khan-i-Jahān and some other nobles were stationed in Majhaulī,¹¹⁰ the easternmost town of the Jaunpur kingdom, to keep the newly conquered country under effective control. But as soon as Bahlūl left for Badaon, Husain Sharqī made a surprise attack on Jaunpur, reoccupied it, and compelled Mubārak Khan Nūhānī to retire to Majhaulī. Hearing of these developments, Bahlūl at once sent his son Bārbak Shāh with a large force to the east and himself followed close behind. Finding resistance useless Sultan Husain left Jaunpur for Bihar late in A. D. 1479 (884 H).