History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.107

c6.107

been vacated so early (1304) by Khizr Khan, there would have been no possibility of such an inscription being found there. Again in giving an account of the events of the years 1311-12 A.D. Firishta conveys the impression that Khizr Khan was ruling at Chittor, when Malik Kafur was going to the Deccan. He writes: "Meanwhile the Rajputs at Chittor threw the Muhammadan officers over the walls and asserted their independence, while Harpaldeo, the son-in-law of Ramdeo stirred up the Deccan to arms and expelled a number of Muhammadan garrisons."45 So, according to this statement Chittor must have passed into the hands of the Rajputs after 1311-12 A.D. Then, the nephew of the Raja mentioned by Firishta to whom Chittor was given over can be no other than the Sonigra chief Maldeva as told by Muhnot Nainsi and other chroniclers of Rajputana and Tod. Muhnot Nainsi, speaking of the conquest of Jalor, writes in his Khyata (chronicle):