The Sultanate of Delhi, 711–1526 A.D. c19.s4.t7: Jalor
The Sultanate of Delhi, 711–1526 A.D. c19.s4.t7
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Jalor
c19.s4.t7.1
Though Raja Kanera Deva of Jalor had sworn allegiance to the Sultan in 1305, he indulged in loose talk and boasted that he would be prepared at any time to meet Ala-ud-din in the field. This enraged the Sultan and, in order to humiliate the Raja, he sent an army against him under the command of a female servant of his palace, named Gul-i-Bihisht. She besieged Jalor. Kanera Deva was so hard-pressed that he was about to surrender when she died. Her son was defeated and killed by the Rajputs. But when some additional troops under Kamal-ud-din Gurg reached Jalor, the Delhi army defeated the Raja and put him and his relations to death. Jalor was then annexed.
c19.s4.t7.2
The conquest of northern India was now almost complete and Ala-ud-din’s empire extended over the whole of that region except Kashmir, Nepal, Assam and a part of the north-western Panjab.