Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s2.37
Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s2.37
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c9.s2.37
Soon after the Sultan ordered Zīrak Khan to march against Tughān Raīs, who had murdered Sadhū Nadira, and now invested his successor Malik Badhan in Sarhind. On Zīrak Khan's approach the Turkbachchās raised the siege. But the royal commander chased them up to Pāīl⁵² and compelled Tughān Raīs to pay a large indemnity and send one of his sons as hostage. For this act of abject subservience he was rewarded with the *iqṭ‘ā* of Jalandhar.⁵³