Twilight of the Sultanate c9.s2.45

c9.s2.45

On his punitive expedition Khizr Khan had first chastised the inhabitants of Kol (Aligarh), situated within eighty miles of the capital city, and then had scoured the region of the Rahāb and Sambhal.⁵⁸ Mahābat Khan, the governor of Badaon, who was present in the Sultan's camp, having had a foreboding that his own fief might be attacked, fled from the camp and entrenched himself in Badaon. Mahābat Khan was a nobleman of Nāsiruddīn Mahmūd Shāh,⁵⁹ but after the new dynasty had come to the helm of affairs he had turned loyal to Khizr Khan and whenever Tājul Mulk had marched to Katehar Mahābat had showed him due deference. But now for no ostensible reason Khizr Khan had scared him, and when he fled for safety Khizr Khan laid siege to Badaon in January, A.D. 1419 (Zilhijja, 821 H.).⁶⁰