Twilight of the Sultanate c6.s2.2

c6.s2.2

Early in the year A. D. 1391 (793 H) news was received of the recalcitrance of Nizām Shāh, the governor of Gujarat. Appointed to its charge in A. D. 1375-76 (777 H)²⁸ by Fīrōz Shāh, Farhatul Mulk, also known as Nizām Shāh Mufarrah, seems to have been very popular with his Hindu subjects.²⁹ This was sufficient cause for the "‘Ulema and the learned" to complain against him. Worse still he had also not sent any revenue to Delhi for some time.³⁰ This was a matter for concern, and Muhammad Shāh nominated Zafar Khan, son of Wajīhul Mulk, to replace Muffarah in Gujarat.³¹ Zafar Khan left for Gujarat with a large army in March, 1391 (Rabius Sānī, 793 H). Mufarrah could hardly submit to this injustice, and with a force of ten to twelve thousand he met Zafar Khan at the village of Kamboi, situated at about 20 miles west of Anhilwara, but he was defeated and killed.³² Zafar Khan entered Neherwala and started on a reign of peace and prosperity.³³