Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s2.26

c9.s2.26

The failure of Sarhind was followed by further discomforting news. In August-September, 1416 (Rajjab, 819 H) Khizr Khan was informed that Sultan Ahmad Shāh of Gujarat had marched to Nagor⁴³ and had invested it.⁴⁴ The event was not without significance for Delhi, the more so because of the growing supremacy of Gujarat over Rajputana.⁴⁵ And although Ahmad Shāh had a reason for the invasion of Nagor,⁴⁶ yet Khizr Khan could not remain a silent spectator of his movements and let the peril approach too close to the borders of his kingdom.