History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c11.156.5

c11.156.5

The whole country was in a state of ferment; the ‘Centurions’ who had previously retired to distant places owing to the fear of the Sultan came back on hearing of the success of their fellow-amirs. The amirs of Dabhoī and Baroda, who had gone to the mountainous region of Baglānā, having been apprised of these developments, returned to Devagiri and threw in their lot with the disaffected party. The common people and the peasantry could no longer keep aloof in such a state of disorder and they swelled the ranks of the rebels. Thus Devagiri became the storm-centre and the rallying point of the ‘Centurions,’ and from all sides the army of revolt received fresh accessions of strength until at last the magnitude of the danger roused the Sultan into activity. Disorder spread in other parts of the Deccan, and the amirs of Malwa, Khandesh and Berar were not slow to follow the example of their compatriots. The troops of Khandesh became mutinous; and ‘Imad-al-Mulk, the king’s son-in-law, who was in charge of the province, found it difficult to hold