Twilight of the Sultanate c14.s5.21

c14.s5.21

Chanderi had fallen into the Sultan's lap without much effort on his part because of the civil war in Malwa. Besides, each and every candidate's efforts to gain Sikandar Lodī's support at one time or the other, had made him a very important factor in the politics of that region. This brought to him many more gains. In A. D. 1509 (915 H) he had been lucky in acquiring another important, though small, principality, that of Nagor under almost equally dramatic circumstances. It had so happened that ʻAlī Khan and Abu Bakr, brothers of Muhammad Khan, ruler of Nagor, had plotted against him and had fled to the court of Sikandar Lodī. Afraid lest Sikandar's support to them should bring about his ruin, Muhammad sent presents and gifts to the Sultan and made his submission by getting the Khutba read and coins struck at Nagor in Sultan Sikandar's name. Sikandar Lodī was immensely pleased with Muḥammad Khan and sent him a horse and a robe of honour.¹¹⁷