Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s3.23

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c5.s3.23

the power and stronger position of the Afghan rebel. He therefore agreed to grant him Bengal as his *Jagir*, provided he retired from his strategic position and further agreed to be pursued by the royal army, thus giving to his (Sher Shah's) feigned retreat an appearance of defeat.¹ Sher Shah broke the whole farce by chasing the Mughal Emperor out of Hindustan and as Humayun remonstrated later, exposed his extremely mean and greedy nature by refusing to agree even to the possession of the Punjab under the dominion of the latter.

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