History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c6.140

c6.140

⁵⁹ Barani simply says certain noblemen came from Lakhnauti to complain of the high-handedness of the ruler of Bangalah. The Tabqāt says, some well-wishers of the Sultan made representation to him of the tyranny of the ruler of Bangalah and asked him to invade Lakhnauti. Badaoni and Firishta also say that the tyranny of the ruler of Bangalah led to this intervention. It is stated in the Riyāz-al-Salātīn (p. 91), that Nāsir-al-Dīn implored the intervention of Sultan Tughluq Shah and that he and his brother Shihab-al-Din Baghra Shah had sought refuge with Tughluq Shah, Thomas says the intervention of Tughluq Shah in the affairs of Bengal seems to have originated in an appeal on the part of the ejected Shihāb-al-Din against the usurpation of his brother Bahadur, J.A.S.B., Pt. I, 1867, p. 46. The fact is that Nāsir-al-Dīn and Shihab-al-Din had sought shelter with Tughluq Shah and implored his intervention.