A History of Agriculture in India v2.c70.2

v2.c70.2

The Moslem kings did not follow the law of primogeniture. As a result, when a king died, a period of uncertainty followed and his sons fought one another, till one of them emerged as the victor and claimed the throne. Babur had four sons—Humayun, Kamran, Hindal and Askari. Humayun, who was the eldest, succeeded Babur in A.D. 1530. At that time he was twenty-three years old and had served as the governor of Badakshan. His brothers created great trouble for him. Kamran, who was the governor of Kabul, added Punjab and Sind to his domain, thus cutting off Humayun from the recruitment area of his army. His bitterest enemy, however, was the Afghan, Sher Khan, who defeated him at Chausa in June 1539, and finally at Kanauj in May 1540.