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against Sultan Muhammad Shah, of Behar and the revolted chiefs of the east. Both Bayazid Farmuli and Firoz Khan now submitted to BSbar, who bestowed on them and the leading officers of their army large assignments, chiefly in Jaunpur and Ou^h, out of the revenue of the territories that were still in the hands oj the insurgents to whom they were opposed.

In 1527 A.D. the country beyond the Ganges being still disturbed by the Afghan, chief Baban who had occupied Lucknow and forced Sultan Muhammad, Babar's governor to abandon Kanauj, Babar " bestowed the government of these countries on Muhammad Sultan Mirza, a grandson of the great Siiltan Husen Mirza of Khorasan and one of the Emperor's favourite officers, and sent him with a strong army to recover the lost Baban no sooner heard that Muhammad Sultan had crossed territory. the Ganges than be deserted Lucknow and retired once more into the upper country" (477).

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In 1528 A.D. Muhammad Sultan having been attacked and defeated by the Afghan insurgents " was forced to abandon Lucknow, to recross the Ganges, and fall back on Kanauj " (482), and at last to evacuate Kanauj and The revolt had been strengthened by the accession of retire on Raberi. Shekh Bayazid with his whole army. At Babar's approach the Afghans abandoned Kanauj " and retreating across the Ganges took up a position on its left bank opposite to that city, determined to dispute the passage of the river."

They must have crossed close to Bilgr£m. Babar bridged the Ganges lower down at Nanamau Ghat near Bdngarmau, re-occupied Lucknow, and pursued and routed the Afghans near Ajodhya. In 1534 A.D., in the reign of [Humaydn, Muhammad Sultan Mirza rebelled and raised an army of six thousand Afghans and Rajputs at Kanauj. In two years he had made himself master of the country from Kanauj to Jaunpur, and caused the khutba to be read in his own name. "He fixed the seat of his Government at Bilgrard, opposite to Kanauj, and had gained sufficient strength to send his son Ulugh Mirza with a large force to besiege Jaunpur, while Shah Mirza, another of his sons, reduced Karra-Manikpur. Kanauj too had fallen into his hands.'' (Erskine, II., 89.) The Emperor's brother, Hindal Mirza, headed a successful campaign against the insurgents and defeated them in the neighbourhood of Bilgram. " Hindal Mirza, whom the Emperor had left iu command at Agra, marched to quell this revolt, and soon retook Kanauj. As soon as Muhammad Sultan Mirza heard of his approach, he called in all his detachments and was joined by Shah Mirza, while Ulugh Mirza, wrote to say that he would hasten with all possible speed to meet him at the same time urging him not to hazard a battle till his arrival. Muham•

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Sultan Mirza and Shah Mirza encamping on the left (the Bilgram) cf the river, used every exertion to obstruct the passage of the imHindiil, however, eager to engage the enemy before perial army, Ulugh

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