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 106 EAZIYA, THE MOHAMMEDAN EMPEESS OF INDIA Since the stay of the insurgents at the gates of Delhi was protracted, Sultan Raziya went out from the city and ordered her tents to be pitched at a certain place on the banks of the Jumna. Several engage- ments took place between the insurgent chiefs and the Turkish nobles who were on the side of the Sultan, but at last peace was effected with great adroitness. Malik Izz-ad-din Mohammad Salari and Malik Izz-ad-din Kabir Khan Ayyaz secretly joined the Sultan, and came at night to her Majesty's tents, with the under- standing that Malik Jani, Malik Kochi, and Nizam-al- Mulk Junaidi were to be summoned and closely impris- oned, so that the rebellion might subside. When these chiefs were informed of this matter, they fled from their camp, and some horsemen of the Sultan pursued them. Malik Kochi and his brother Fakhr-ad-din were captured, and were afterwards killed in prison. Malik Jani was slain in the neighbourhood of Babul and Nak- wan, and Nizam-al-Mulk Junaidi went into the moun- tains of Bardar, where he died. When the affairs of Raziya were thus settled, she conferred the office of vizir on an upright officer who had been the deputy of Nizam-al-Mulk, and he likewise received the title of Nizam-al-Mulk. The command of the army was given to Malik Saif-ad-din Aybek Bahtu, with the title of Katlagh Khan. To Kabir Khan was assigned the province of Lahore. The country now en- joyed peace, and the power of the State became mani- fest. Throughout its territories, from Lakhnauti to Dai- bul, all the princes and nobles made their submission.