History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c7.51

c7.51

fate of the Rai of Kampil, Ballāla showed no hospitality to the fugitive rebel, and made him over to the imperial general Khwaja Jahan. Firishta's statement that Ballāla acknowledged the supremacy of the Dihli Sultan is supported neither by Ibn Batūṭah nor by the numerous inscriptions of Ballāla that are available to us. If he ever recognised the sovereignty of the Dihli Sultan, such recognition must have been merely nominal dictated by a temporary necessity. Bound hand and foot, the captive governor was dispatched to Dihli, where he was flayed alive and paraded in the streets, while the executioner by way of warning to other like-minded miscreants uttered the words: 'Thus shall those guilty of treason perish.'²⁸ Ibn Batūṭah relates that the culprit was taken into the haram where his female relatives up-braided him and spat upon him. At last, he was flayed alive and his flesh was cooked with rice and sent to his family.²⁹ Ibn Batūṭah's statement that the corpses of Bahā-al-Din and Ghiyas-al-Din Bahadur of Bengal were stuffed with bran and paraded together in the empire is incorrect, for Bahadur's rebellion occurred three or four years afterwards.³⁰